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date: 25 January 2021

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This chapter describes neurolinguistic aspects of morphology, morphological theory, and especially morphological processing. It briefly mentions the main processing models in the literature and how they deal with morphological issues, i.e. full-listing models (all morphologically related words are listed separately in the lexicon and are processed individually), full-parsing or decompositional models (morphologically related words are not listed in the lexicon but are decomposed into their constituent morphemes, each of which is listed in the lexicon), and hybrid, so-called dual route, models (regular morphologically related words are decomposed, irregular words are listed). The chapter also summarizes some important findings from the literature that bear on neurolinguistic aspects of morphological processing, from both language comprehension and language production, taking into consideration neuropsychological patient studies as well as studies employing neuroimaging methods.

Keywords: neurolinguistics, morphological processing, morphological representation, behavioral experiments, electrophysiological experiments, EEG, ERP, neuroimaging experiments, fMRI, language comprehension, language production

Niels O. Schiller

Niels O. Schiller is Professor of Psycho- and Neurolinguistics at Leiden University. He is Academic Director of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and serves on the board of the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC). His research areas include syntactic, morphological, and phonological processes in language production and reading aloud. Furthermore, he is interested in articulatory-motor processes during speech production, language processing in neurologically impaired patients, and forensic phonetics.

Rinus G. Verdonschot

Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences at Hiroshima University. His research includes published work on a wide range of psycho- and neurolinguistic topics (e.g. speech production, orthographic script processing, multilingualism) as well as on action-perception coupling in professional musicians. He is also a co-author of the widely used E-Primer: An Introduction to Creating Psychological Experiments in E-Prime textbook.

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