Morpholexical Access and Naming: The Semantic Interpretability of New Root–Suffix Combinations

Burani, Cristina; Dovetto, Francesca M.; Spuntarelli, Alberto; Thornton, Anna M.

doi:10.1006/brln.1999.2073

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“…Results showed that, compared to the control group, she tended to accept morphologically complex pseudo-verbs as real verbs. These results also align with several studies that have shown that the validation of a root/affix combination involves semantic processing (Bölte, Schulz, & Dobel, 2010;Burani, Dovetto, Spuntarelli, & Thornton, 1999;Fruchter & Marantz, 2015;Lavric, Elchlepp, & Rastle, 2012;Levy, Hagoort, & Démonet, 2014;Whiting, Marslen-Wilson, & Shtyrov, 2013;Wurm, 2000). From a neuroanatomical point of view, the study conducted by Whiting et al (2013) suggests that the semantic validation of morpheme combinations in auditory word processing would activate the anterior temporal lobes, which is the locus of maximal brain atrophy consistently reported in SD (Gorno-Tempini et al, 2011;Patterson, Nestor, & Rogers, 2007).…”

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Conception or *conceivation? The processing of derivational morphology in semantic dementia

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Background: Only a few studies have focused on derivational morphology in semantic dementia (SD). The productive and componential nature of derivational morphology as well as recent findings in psycholinguistics suggest that semantic cognition would be involved in the production and comprehension of derivational morphemes and derived words. Therefore, participants with SD might present impairment in derivational morphology. Aims: This study aims to specify semantic cognition's involvement in the production and comprehension of derivational morphemes and morphologically complex words in SD participants. This involvement was considered in relation to the production of morphologically complex words, the comprehension of the meaning conveyed by morphemes, and the capacity to distinguish between words with a real vs. an apparent morphological structure. Methods and Procedures: Ten French-speaking SD participants completed three tasks of derivational morphology. Their performances were compared to those of a group of 20 age-, genderand education-matched adults without cognitive impairment. Outcomes and Results: Compared with participants of the control group, SD participants had more difficulty producing nouns derived from verbs that follow less-frequent patterns of root allomorphy, while their performance was less affected when they could rely on basic morphological decomposition/composition abilities. Participants with SD also had more difficulties to match derived words and pseudo-words to a definition and to distinguish between pairs of real morphological antonyms and pseudomorphological non-antonyms. Conclusions: These results support the involvement of semantic cognition in the validation of morpheme combinations and in derivational morpheme representation. Difficulties in the production and comprehension of derived words and derivational morphemes are another of the many consequences of central semantic impairment that characterises SD. More studies are needed to develop tests and further characterise the involvement of semantic cognition in derivational morphology.

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“…This unique contribution from frequency suggests that word naming in Italian does involve lexical access. The presence of frequency effects in the absence of semantic effects contributes to the view that lexical reading aloud is available in Italian, with purely lexical reading aloud dissociable from lexicalsemantic reading (see Burani, Dovetto, Spuntarelli, & Thornton, 1999;Burani & Laudanna, in press; see also Bates et al, 2001). …”

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Word naming times and psycholinguistic norms for Italian nouns

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2002

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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“…If this is the case also in naming, one would expect that root frequency would be a significant predictor of naming latencies as well. There is evidence, in fact, that naming can be performed by applying a morpholexical analysis (not necessarily implying a parsing strategy) to the letter string (Burani, Dovetto, Spuntarelli, & Thornton, 1999;Burani & Laudanna, in press). Naming latencies are faster for pseudowords formed by a real root combined with a suffix as compared to pseudowords that do not form such a combination.…”

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The Influence of Age of Acquisition, Root Frequency, and Context Availability in Processing Nouns and Verbs

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2002

Brain and Language

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Morpholexical Access and Naming: The Semantic Interpretability of New Root–Suffix Combinations

Cited by 53 publications

References 5 publications

Conception or *conceivation? The processing of derivational morphology in semantic dementia

Conception or *conceivation? The processing of derivational morphology in semantic dementia

Word naming times and psycholinguistic norms for Italian nouns

The Influence of Age of Acquisition, Root Frequency, and Context Availability in Processing Nouns and Verbs

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