Experiments in Applying Morphological Analysis in Speech Recognition and Their Cognitive Explanation

On the other hand, there is much evidence that human listeners are sensitive to the internal structure of words, particularly to that related to their meaning, or morphology. Some evidence for this is just to do with the production and interpretation of novel, morphologically complex words such as “un-micro-wave-ability”. But there is also interesting psycholinguistic evidence that morphological analysis is performed on-line during the processes of word recognition of common words. This seems to be the case for both inflexional morphology (cows, milked) and derivational morphology (distrust, government).