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Collegium antropologicum, Vol. 32 - Supplement 1 No. 1, 2008.

Short communication, Note

Mental Lexicon and Derivational Rules

Marijan Palmović
Antonija Maričić

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Abstract

Lexical decision task in an event-related potential experiment was used in order to determine the organization of mental
lexicon regarding the polimorphemic words: are they stored as unanalyzable items or as separate morphemes? The results
indicate the later: while monomorphemic words elicit N400 component, usually related to lexical-semantic processing,
prefixed words and prefixed pseudo-words elicit left anterior negativity (LAN), usually related to grammatical
(morphosyntactic) processes. These components indicate that the speakers apply grammatical (i.e. word-formation) rules
and combine morphemes in order to obtain lexical meaning of the prefixed word.

Keywords

mental lexicon; lexical decision task; prefixation; event-related potentials; N400; LAN

Hrčak ID:

24461

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/24461

Publication date:

13.5.2008.

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