Psycho-Computational Issues in Morphology Learning and Processing: An Overture
Vito Pirrelli · 2007
The basic psycholinguistic question in Morphology learning and processing is whether morphologically complex forms are stored in long-term memory or rather composed “on-line ” in working memory from stored constituents. A third logical possibility is that long-term storage and on-line processing do in fact compete in word acquisition and comprehension. Over the past several years, the three hypotheses have been intensively investigated on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Theoretical arguments have mainly focused on the logical conditions under which complex word forms may be rule-generated on the fly (see e.g. Aronoff