Conceptual salience of prefixes in L2 acquisition and processing: a reading-time study within context

• Main Authors: Voga, Madeleine, Nikolaou, Georgia, Anastassiadis-Symeonidis, Anna
• Format: Online
• Language: English
• Published: Mediterranean Morphology Meetings (MMM) 2017
• Subjects: 0; suspended affixation; Lexical Integrity Hypothesis; derivational suffixes; coordination; constructed words; L2 Greek; prefix; conceptual salience; consistency judgement; roots; Hebrew; Spanish; cross-linguistic; diminutives; verbs; French; Modern Greek; motion events; typological change; Latin linguistics; sytem; usage; reciprocals; reflexives; templates; Hebrew; collective and distributive; root; features; morphology; periphrasis; compound formation; morphological productivity; productivity measures; corpus-based statistical methods; lexical integrity; autonomous morphology; base types; sign language; two-handed signs; motivation in phonology; duality of patterning; lexicalization; memorization; adjective-noun combinations; compounding; Italian; overabundance; number inflection

The paradigmatic dimension of constructed words has led to variables which have been proved to influence morphological (on-line) processing. Τhe study presented here seeks to fill a gap in this domain by considering acquisition and processing of constructed words in Greek L2 with a self-paced readin...