Frequency effects in the production of Dutch deverbal adjectives and inflected verbs (original) (raw)

2011, Language and Cognitive Processes

In two experiments, we studied the role of frequency information in the production of deverbal adjectives and inflected verbs in Dutch. Naming latencies were triggered in a position-response association task and analyzed using stepwise mixed-effects modeling, with subject and word as crossed random effects. The production latency of deverbal adjectives was affected by the cumulative frequencies of their verbal stems, arguing for decomposition and against full listing. However, for the inflected verbs, there was an inhibitory effect of inflectional entropy, and a non-linear effect of lemma frequency. Additional effects of position-specific neighborhood density and cohort entropy in both types of words underline the importance of paradigmatic relations in the mental lexicon. Taken together, the data suggest that the word-form level does neither contain full forms nor strictly separated morphemes, but rather morphemes with links to phonologically and -in case of inflected verbsmorphologically related word forms. Greenberg, J.H., & Jenkins, J.J. (1964). Studies in the psychological correlates of the sound system of American English. Word, 20,