Morphologically complex words in the mind/brain

• Main Author: Minna Lehtonen (auth)
• Other Authors: Mirjana Bozic (auth), Harald Clahsen (auth), Alina Leminen (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; ERP; morphology; L2; Dyslexia; derivation; Compound; decomposition; semantics; MEG; inflection
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The question of how morphologically complex words (assign-ment, listen-ed) are represented and processed in the brain has been one of the most hotly debated topics in the cognitive neuroscience of language. Do complex words engage cortical representations and processes equivalent to single lexical o...