Structure, form, and meaning in the mental lexicon: evidence from Arabic
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Structure, form, and meaning in the mental lexicon: evidence from Arabic
Does the organization of the mental lexicon reflect the combination of abstract underlying morphemic units or the concatenation of word-level phonological units? We address these fundamental issues in Arabic, a Semitic language where every surface form is potentially analyzable into abstract morphemic units - the word pattern and the root - and where this view contrasts with stem-based approach...
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عنوان ژورنال: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2327-3798,2327-3801
DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2015.1048258