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Psycholinguistic Methods and Tasks in Morphology
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Psycholinguistic Methods and Tasks in Morphology

Abstract

Lexical representations in an individual mind are not given to direct scrutiny. Thus, in their theorizing of mental representations, researchers must rely on observable and measurable outcomes of language processing, that is, perception, production, storage, access, and retrieval of lexical information. Morphological research pursues these questions utilizing the full arsenal of analytical tools and experimental techniques that are at the disposal of psycholinguistics. This article outlines the most popular approaches, and aims to provide, for each technique, a brief overview of its procedure in experimental practice. Additionally, the article describes the link between the processing effect(s) that the tool can elicit and the representational phenomena that it may shed light on. The article discusses methods of morphological research in the two major human linguistic faculties—production and comprehension—and provides a separate treatment of spoken, written and sign language.

Authors

Schmidtke D; Kuperman V

Book title

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Publication Date

February 28, 2020

DOI

10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.600
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