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Morphology and Word Recognition

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Besides syntax and phonology, morphology is one of the traditional research areas in linguistics. Morphology is the branch of linguistics studying the internal structure of words. So, for example, a word like modernizes is composed of three building blocks or so-called morphemes, the modern, ize and -s. The present article gives an overview of experimental psycholinguistic research and psycholinguistic models on the role of morphological structure in word recognition.

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Schriefers, H. (1998). Morphology and Word Recognition. In: Language Comprehension: A Biological Perspective. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97734-3_4

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