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How does the brain process vocabulary? Does exposure to discourses of different types, create different mental structures and processes in the brain? Until recent years, answers to these questions were little more than guesswork. But since the late 1970s, psycholinguistic studies into the processing of words in the brain have progressed to the point where some firmer conclusions can be drawn, especially about the role of morphology in processing complex words in the mental lexicon.
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Corson, D. (1995). Morphology and the Mental Lexicon. In: Using English Words. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0425-8_8
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