Finnish Compound Structure: Experiments with a Morphologically Impaired Patient

Mäkisalo, Jukka; Niemi, Jussi; Laine, Matti

doi:10.1006/brln.1999.2095

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“…If this were not the case, one would be unable to account for the differential effects obtained across compound constituents. In keeping with previous studies (Badecker, 2001;Blanken, 2000;Delazer & Semenza, 1998;Hittmair-Delazer et al, 1994;Mä kisalo et al, 1999), this systematic intra-compound variation thus clearly demonstrates that constituent activation is involved during the production of compounds in aphasia. The surfacing of compositional effects in this and earlier neuropsychological studies further confirms the structured nature of compound representation and processing advocated in the psycholinguistic literature (e.g., Libben & Jarema, 2006), indicating that similar principles govern compound production in language-impaired and intact populations.…”

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The processing of compounds in bilingual aphasia: A multiple‐case study

Jarema

Perlak

Semenza³

2009

Aphasiology

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Background: While converging evidence has led to the view that people with aphasia exploit compositional procedures when producing compound words, the issue of what compound-internal characteristics are at play during these procedures is still under debate. It has been argued that constituent position and/or morphosyntactic prominence, i.e., being the head constituent of a compound, may influence the manner in which compounds are accessed. However, findings obtained from patient performances are thus far inconclusive, because positional and headedness effects are frequently confounded in a language. Aims: In order to disentangle position-in-the-string and headedness effects in compound production in aphasia, the main objective of this study is to investigate the performance of bilingual patients speaking languages in which these effects can be teased apart. Our secondary goal is to probe the roles of grammatical category (adjectives vs nouns) and of between-language phonological similarity, as both these factors have been demonstrated to influence compound processing. Methods & Procedures: Three English-French bilingual persons with aphasia participated in the study. Three experimental tasks, reading, repetition, and translation of isolated compound words, were administrated in each language. We contrasted French and English compounds that differ in the position of the head constituent: left for French and right for English. Outcomes & Results: Two participants showed a similar pattern-a significantly reduced number of errors for the head (or first) constituent as compared to the non-head (or second) constituent in French and an equivalent number of errors for both constituents in English-pointing to the cumulative effects of headedness and first-position-in-thestring in French, and to the mutual cancelling out of these effects in English. The third participant exhibited a non-head constituent advantage in both languages, indicating that semantic modification of the head constituent by the non-head constituent plays a prominent role in her accessing procedures. For all three participants phonological similarity influenced production, while grammatical category did not.

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The processing of compounds in bilingual aphasia: A multiple‐case study

Jarema

Perlak

Semenza³

2009

Aphasiology

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“…HH's ability to read words was extensively studied over a long period of time, from 4 to over 10 years post onset (Laine, Niemi, Koivuselkä-Sallinen, & Hyönä, 1995;Laine & Niemi, 1997;Mäkisalo, Niemi, & Laine, 1999;Niemi, Laine, & Tuominen,1994). Clinically, his condition remained stable, and six-year followup data reported in Laine and Niemi (1997) indicated an essentially unchanged, severe deficit in reading.…”

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“…For example, in a single-word reading task reported by Laine et al (1995), HH read aloud correctly 214/290 (74%) uninflected nouns while with inflected nouns, his success rate dropped to 40/290 correct (14%). In addition, compounds caused problems for HH: Mäkisalo et al (1999) found that in the reading of two-member Finnish noun+noun compounds (like eläin+tarha lit. 'animal+garden' , i.e., 'zoo') HH could read correctly somewhat less than half of the items.…”

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Paradigmatic and extraparadigmatic morphology in the mental lexicon

Niemi

Laine

Järvikivi

2009

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The present study discusses psycholinguistic evidence for a difference between paradigmatic and extraparadigmatic morphology by investigating the processing of Finnish inflected and cliticized words. The data are derived from three sources of Finnish: from single-word reading performance in an agrammatic deep dyslectic speaker, as well as from visual lexical decision and wordness/learnability ratings of cliticized vs. inflected items by normal Finnish speakers. The agrammatic speaker showed awareness of the suffixes in multimorphemic words, including clitics, since he attempted to fill in this slot with morphological material. However, he never produced a clitic — either as the correct response or as an error — in any morphological configuration (simplex, derived, inflected, compound). Moreover, he produced more nominative singular errors for case-inflected nouns than he did for the cliticized words, a pattern that is expected if case-inflected forms were closely associated with their lexical heads, i.e., if they were paradigmatic and cliticized words were not. Furthermore, a visual lexical decision task with normal speakers of Finnish, showed an additional processing cost (longer latencies and more errors on cliticized than on case-inflected noun forms). Finally, a rating task indicated no difference in relative wordness between these two types of words. However, the same cliticized words were judged harder to learn as L2 items than the inflected words, most probably due to their conceptual/semantic properties, in other words due to their lack of word-level translation equivalents in SAVE languages. Taken together, the present results suggest that the distinction between paradigmatic and extraparadigmatic morphology is psychologically real

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“…A substantial body of evidence from the processing of compounds comes from studies investigating a single language . There have been nine languages tested so far: Dutch (Sandra 1990;Zwitserlood 1994), German (Bronk et al 2013), English (Libben 1998;Fiorentino & Fund-Reznicek 2009), Greek (Dalalakis 1999), Finnish (Mäkisalo et al 1999), Italian (Delazer & Semenza 1998;Mondini et al 2004;Marelli & Luzzatti 2012), Japanese (Kudo 1992), Chinese (Zhou & Marslen-Wilson 1994) and Hebrew (Berman & Clark 1989). Slavic single-language studies are seriously under-represented (Libben 2013).…”

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Is a Step through the Door a Way to Take a Doorstep? A Psycholinguistic Study on Polish Compound Words

Hwaszcz

2018

awr

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The present study concentrates on the organization of the mental lexicon with regard to semantic transparency in the representation of Polish compounds. Its aim was to test current approaches to the processing of morphologically complex words in a lexical decision experiment with the use of visually presented Polish compound and simple words. The existing psycholinguistic approaches centre around the same question: are complex words parsed into their constituent parts or are they stored as full-word representations in the human mental lexicon? I referred to five widely acknowledged models of morphological processing to account for the outcomes of the present study. The data reveal that: i transparent compounds primed by words semantically related to the heads of these transparent compounds elicited faster response times than opaque compounds within the same condition; and ii priming speeds up the processing for both transparent and opaque compounds. The results indicate that the processing of Polish compound words is influenced by semantic transparency and that both transparent and opaque compounds are decomposed into their constituents prior to lexical access.

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Finnish Compound Structure: Experiments with a Morphologically Impaired Patient

Cited by 12 publications

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The processing of compounds in bilingual aphasia: A multiple‐case study

The processing of compounds in bilingual aphasia: A multiple‐case study

Paradigmatic and extraparadigmatic morphology in the mental lexicon

Is a Step through the Door a Way to Take a Doorstep? A Psycholinguistic Study on Polish Compound Words

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