TY - JOUR
T1 - Syntactic and semantic restrictions on morphological recomposition
T2 - MEG evidence from Greek
AU - Neophytou, K.
AU - Manouilidou, C.
AU - Stockall, L.
AU - Marantz, A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute , under Grant G1001 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Authors
PY - 2018/8
Y1 - 2018/8
N2 - Complex morphological processing has been extensively studied in the past decades. However, most of this work has either focused on only certain steps involved in this process, or it has been conducted on a few languages, like English. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the spatiotemporal cortical processing profile of the distinct steps previously reported in the literature, from decomposition to re-composition of morphologically complex items, in a relatively understudied language, Greek. Using magnetoencephalography, we confirm the role of the fusiform gyrus in early, form-based morphological decomposition, we relate the syntactic licensing of stem-suffix combinations to the ventral visual processing stream, somewhat independent from lexical access for the stem, and we further elucidate the role of orbitofrontal regions in semantic composition. Thus, the current study offers the most comprehensive test to date of visual morphological processing and additional, crosslinguistic validation of the steps involved in it.
AB - Complex morphological processing has been extensively studied in the past decades. However, most of this work has either focused on only certain steps involved in this process, or it has been conducted on a few languages, like English. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the spatiotemporal cortical processing profile of the distinct steps previously reported in the literature, from decomposition to re-composition of morphologically complex items, in a relatively understudied language, Greek. Using magnetoencephalography, we confirm the role of the fusiform gyrus in early, form-based morphological decomposition, we relate the syntactic licensing of stem-suffix combinations to the ventral visual processing stream, somewhat independent from lexical access for the stem, and we further elucidate the role of orbitofrontal regions in semantic composition. Thus, the current study offers the most comprehensive test to date of visual morphological processing and additional, crosslinguistic validation of the steps involved in it.
KW - Full Decomposition model
KW - Greek
KW - Magnetoencephalography
KW - Morphology
KW - Visual word processing
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U2 - 10.1016/j.bandl.2018.05.003
DO - 10.1016/j.bandl.2018.05.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 29778061
AN - SCOPUS:85047224380
SN - 0093-934X
VL - 183
SP - 11
EP - 20
JO - Brain and Language
JF - Brain and Language
ER -