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Lehtonen, Minna; Niska, Helge; Wande, Erling; Niemi, Jussi; Laine, Matti – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
The effect of word frequency on the processing of monomorphemic vs. inflected words was investigated in a morphologically relatively limited language, Swedish, with two participant groups: early Finnish-Swedish bilinguals and Swedish monolinguals. The visual lexical decision results of the monolinguals suggest morphological decomposition with…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphemes, Word Frequency, Language Processing
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Lehtonen, Minna; Laine, Matti – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2003
The present study investigated processing of morphologically complex words in three different frequency ranges in monolingual Finnish speakers and Finnish-Swedish bilinguals. By employing a visual lexical decision task, we found a differential pattern of results in monolinguals vs. bilinguals. Monolingual Finns seemed to process low frequency and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Swedish, Word Frequency, Morphology (Languages)