Asymmetries in the processing of affixed words in Bengali

Prefixes and suffixes display distinctive linguistic behaviors. Not only does a crosslinguistic asymmetry exist between them in terms of structural properties, combinatorial constraints, frequency, but there is also extensive evidence that prefixes are processed differently. To further investigate the differences how processed, we conducted five crossmodal priming experiments Bengali, language rich derivational morphology. Although all combinations stems, prefixes, provided facilitation, found stems primed related prefixed forms to greater degree than they suffixed forms. Furthermore, morphologically other more On basis these findings, propose due not perception, reading, inhibition from phonological cohort, salience morpheme boundaries affixed word representations during recognition.