The inflectional morphology representation of individual words in the mental lexicon

Models of complex word recognition can be separated into two wide groups: symbolic and connectionist. Symbolic models presume the existence an explicit morphological representation individual words; connectionist do not consider effects to a by-product interaction between phonological, orthographic semantic information. This study aimed test whether there are mental representations inflected lexical units in lexicon. Accordingly, method suffix priming nouns Serbian language was used. In condition, prime target shared same inflectional suffix. Experiment 1 overt used, while 2, masked priming. The results showed no significant priming, were recorded. obtained this research line with predictions models.