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

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 325-347

  Smolka, Eva ^a   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^b   Rösler, Frank ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Illegal combinations; Inflectional morphology; Lexical retrieval; Morphological decomposition; Participle priming; Regularity; Single system; Stem access

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548275054     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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