Journal article
Formal and semantic effects of morphological families on word recognition in Hebrew
Abstract
In Hebrew, content words are usually composed of two interleaving morphemes; roots which carry semantic information, and word-patterns which mainly carry grammatical information. The family size effect in languages with non-concatenative morphology has been previously examined only with respect to the root. The present study reports a lexical-decision experiment with 260 Hebrew nouns representing a variety of nominal word-patterns and roots. We …
Authors
Deutsch A; Kuperman V
Journal
Language Cognition and Neuroscience, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 87–100
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
January 2, 2019
DOI
10.1080/23273798.2018.1513541
ISSN
2327-3798