processing

The research on morphological decomposition of the past 20 years has capitalized on the visual masked priming response elicited in pairs of words sharing the same root/stem (“stem priming”: driver-DRIVE), which has been shown to be robust across languages (a.

Models of visual word processing incorporate morphological decomposition as a step in the recognition process, but they vary as to when this step happens, and what kind of information is used in it.

Over the past few decades, a bulk of psycholinguistic evidence have shown that words decompose in morphemes when they are recognized (morphological decomposition). A series of magnetoencephalographic (MEG) studies have recently suggested that the brain response to morphological properties originates from a region of the inferior temporal cortex known as `Visual Word Fom Area’ (VWFA; Cohen et al.

This study explores to what extent social cognition impacts early auditory processing. We measured the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) response to three non-linguistic biological sounds (flatulence, coughs and sniffs) that differ in terms of social markedness: flatulence is socially marked, while coughs and sniffs are not.

This strand of my program explores the representational and the computational relationships among phonological, morpho-phonological, and morphological alternations. Morphological and phonological theories have primarily focused on two main questions about alternations.

This strand of my program explores the the amount of information associated with the phonological and morphological representations that are stored in the lexicon. Phonological representations Within phonology, though there is widespread agreement that phonemic representations are composed of articulatory features, there are open questions about exactly how rich these representations should be.

A wealth of psycholinguistic evidence has shown that words, before being visually recognized, decompose into smaller units which seem to correspond to morphemes (Rastle et al. 2000, Rastle et al. 2004).

A wealth of psycholinguistic evidence has shown that words, before being visually recognized, decompose into smaller units which seem to correspond to morphemes (Rastle et al., 2000, 2004). Such a procedure of morphological decomposition seems to occur in words that are made of more than one morpheme, independently of whether they are semantically transparent (e.