{"pk":33323,"title":"The Relationship between Lexical and Syntactic Processing","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Lexical and syntactic processes are usually regarded as separate sub-systems of the language processing system. We re-examine the autonomy of these processes, given a mental lexicon that is morphemically decomposed, in 3 self-paced reading experiments. Although inflectional affixes have a syntactic role and derivational affixes have a lexical role, there were similar patterns of processing for both types of affix (Experiments 1 and 3). This suggests that there is a common combinatorial process at both levels of the system. Using novel and established morphologically complex words, we varied word-internal factors together with sentence level constraints (Experiment 2). Both sentence-level constraints and word-internal factors had parallel effects on the processing of novel and established words. Overall, the results indicate that the relationship between lexical and syntactic processing may be non-autonomous when morphological composition is taken into consideration.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Long Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2pk1q8qq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Billi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Randall","name_suffix":"","institution":"Centre for Speech and Language, Birkbeck College","department":""},{"first_name":"William","middle_name":"","last_name":"Marslen-Wilson","name_suffix":"","institution":"MRC Cognitie and Brains Science Unit, Cambridge","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1998-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33323/galley/24382/download/"}]}