The Mental Representation of Inflected Words: An Experimental Study of Adjectives and Verbs in German

Is there a ‘fete’ in ‘fetish’? Effects of orthographic opacity on morpho-orthographic segmentation in visual word recognition

“…Specifically, one could suggest that the orthographic representations of stems such as 'drum' are somehow marked as containing an optional additional 'm', and thus become activated in response to exemplars such as 'drumm' (from 'drummer'). Clahsen and colleagues explore a similar notion, arguing that only underspecified lexical entries of stem forms can account for priming patterns observed in German adjectives (Clahsen, Eisenbeiss, Hadler, & Sonnenstuhl, 2001).…”

Minimal representations of alternating vowels

“…There is no need to store umlauted stems separate from non-umlauted stems, as is done in recent Dual Route models (cf. Clahsen et al, 2001). Although such models acknowledge that, for instance, the 2.P.SG.…”

Stem access in regular and irregular inflection: Evidence from German participles

“…''Dual mechanism'' models (e.g., Clahsen et al, 2001;Pinker, 1998) incorporate different access procedures and thus predict different facilitation for regular and irregular verbs. Stems of regular verbs can be accessed, but not those of irregular verbs.…”

“…This yields the ''partial'' activation of base forms when the irregular past tense form is accessed. These findings, together with the linguistically motivated distinction between a universal default and a lexical storage system (Chomsky & Halle, 1968) lay the cornerstone for the so-called ''dual mechanism'' account for inflectional systems (e.g., Clahsen, 1999;Clahsen, Eisenbeiss, Hadler, & Sonnenstuhl, 2001;Clahsen, Eisenbeiss, & Sonnenstuhl-Henning, 1997;Pinker, 1998Pinker, , 1999Pinker & Ullman, 2002;Prasada & Pinker, 1993;Ullman, 2001). The model assumes two innate but completely separate systems: a parsing system that applies default rules to base forms, and a lexical storage system that stores all exceptions to these default rules as whole words.…”