Processing of zero-derived words in English: an fMRI investigation.

Christos Pliatsikas Linda Wheeldon Aditi Lahiri Peter C Hansen

Neuropsychologia

School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. Electronic address:

Published: January 2014

Derivational morphological processes allow us to create new words (e.g. punish (V) to noun (N) punishment) from base forms. The number of steps from the basic units to derived words often varies (e.g., nationalitybridge-V) i.e., zero-derivation (Aronoff, 1980). We compared the processing of one-step (soaking

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Processing of zero-derived words in English: an fMRI investigation.

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School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. Electronic address:

Christos Pliatsikas Linda Wheeldon Aditi Lahiri Peter C Hansen

Derivational morphological processes allow us to create new words (e.g. punish (V) to noun (N) punishment) from base forms.

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