Processing morphologically conditioned word accents

Pelle Söderström; Mikael Roll; Merle Horne

Processing morphologically conditioned word accents

Pelle Söderström, Mikael Roll, Merle Horne

General Linguistics

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Abstract

The present response time study investigated the influence Central Swedish word accents have on the interpretation of inflectional morphology. Effects of stem tone match/mismatch on the interpretation of Swedish present and past tense suffixes were tested. Both Accent 1 and Accent 2 were found to influence listeners' response times related to decisions on verb tense. It thus seems that both word accents can facilitate online interpretation of words. Previous studies where tasks have not required suffix interpretation have only found an effect of Accent 1 patterns on Accent 2-associated suffixes. Accent 2 suffixes further yielded generally greater response times than Accent 1-associated suffixes. Different possible explanations for this are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	77-89
Journal	The Mental Lexicon
Volume	7
Publication status	Published - 2012

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The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015.
The record was previously connected to the following departments: Linguistics and Phonetics (015010003)

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General Language Studies and Linguistics

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word accents
morphology
response time
Swedish
Accent 1
Accent 2

1 Article

Stem tones pre-activate suffixes in the brain
Söderström, P., Horne, M. & Roll, M., 2017 Apr, In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 46, 2, p. 271-280
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Abstract, emotional and concrete words in the mental lexicon
Blomberg, F. (Researcher), Horne, M. (PI), Roll, M. (Researcher), Söderström, P. (Researcher) & Lindgren, M. (Researcher)
Swedish Research Council
2010/01/01 → 2013/12/31
Project: Research
Humanities and Medicine (HuMe)
Liljefors, M. (Researcher), Lundin, S. (Researcher), Horne, M. (PI), Roll, M. (Researcher) & Söderström, P. (Researcher)
2010/01/01 → 2013/12/31
Project: Research

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Processing morphologically conditioned word accents

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