It has been demonstrated that in early visual word processing, monolingual speakers process morphologically complex words in terms of their constituent morphemes (e.g., hunt+er), irrespective of the semantic relationship between stem and suffix (e.g., corn+er) (e.g., Longtin, Segui, & Halle, 2003; Rastle, Davis, & New, 2004). However, research into bilingual morphological processing has produced support for and against the notion that bilinguals process morphologically complex words akin to monolingual speakers (Clahsen, Felser, Neubauer, Sato, & Silva, 2010; Diependaele, Dufiabeitia, Morris, & Keuleers, 2011). The experiments in this work explored the nature of bilingual morphological processing in early visual word recognition, by means of masked priming. Using prime target pairs sharing a morphological a nd semantic (e.g., hunter-hunt), only a pseudo-morphological (e.g., corner-corn), and neither morphological nor semantic relationship (e.g., yellow-yell), Experiments 1 and 2 explored morphological priming in English for English L1 - German L2 and German L1 - English L2 speakers, respectively. The design was expanded to German, testing bilingual German L1 and L2 speakers in Experiments 3 and 4. Results showed similar trends with consistent priming across all conditions for bilingual English L1 and L2 speakers, but different priming magnitudes for bilingual German L1 and L2 speakers. Using primes ranging from very low to very high frequencies, the relative contribution of prime frequency with respect to these findings was explored first for native English speakers in Experiment 5, and expanded to English L2 speakers in Experiment 6. Although prime frequency affected reaction latencies in both monolingual and bilingual speakers, Experiment 7, a re-test of Experiment 1 with monolingual speakers with no knowledge of a foreign language, indicated that it may be the sound command of another language that influences morphological processing in the participants' native language. The results are discussed in relation to the current literature and models of bilingual word processing.

El desarrollo de técnicas matemáticas para mejorar la visualización de imágenes médicas DICOM, mediante segmentación y procesamiento morfológico es el principal objetivo del presente proyecto de tesis. Para lograr este fin, se recopilaron imágenes médicas de un Tomógrafo Computarizado en diferentes estudios especializados de UROTEM, Tórax y de Cerebro, los cuales fueron procesados mediante algoritmos matemáticos desarrollados en el software Matlab. En el primer capítulo se plantea el problema; la necesidad de un post procesamiento de imágenes médicas, se fundamenta la importancia de esta investigación y se identifican los objetivos a lograr, así como también, se describen los antecedentes de esta investigación. Como marco teórico, en el segundo capítulo, se explica brevemente el funcionamiento de un Tomógrafo Computarizado, la adquisición de una imagen y el desarrollo del formato DICOM como un estándar internacional para imágenes médicas. Las técnicas matemáticas se describen en el capítulo tres; segmentación de imágenes, mediante el método de N. Otsu y procesamiento morfológico, detallándose su formulación y se definen las funciones empleadas en el software Matlab basadas en estas técnicas. El desarrollo de técnicas computacionales son descritas en el capítulo cuatro, donde se presenta por cada estudio; un diagrama de bloques y el desarrollo del procedimiento del algoritmo en Matlab, Finalmente, en el capítulo cinco, se muestran las pruebas y resultados de las imágenes DICOM de cinco pacientes por estudio, identificándose las patologías de forma automática. The mathematical technics to improve the visualization of medical images DICOM, through segmentation and morphological processing is the main goal of the following thesis project. In order to achieve this purpose, we collected medical images from a computed tomography scanner in three different exams, UROTEM, Thorax, and Brain. These images were processed through the mathematical algorithms developed in the software Matlab. The first chapter presents the problem; the necessity to post processing the medical images, the importance of the investigation as a tool to help in the medical diagnosis and the identification of a pathology automatically, the identification of the objectives to accomplish, and also it describes the antecedents of medical images processing developed from different authors. As a theory, in the second chapter, explain briefly the working basis of the Computed tomography scanner, the acquisition of an image and the developing of DICOM format as an international standard for medical images. The mathematical technics, are described in the chapter three; segmentation of the images, through the Otsu method and morphological processing, explaining its formula and function in Matlab Software. The developing of the computational technics are described in chapter four , UROTEM, Thorax and Brain; a flow chart of each exam and the step by step procedure of the Matlab algorithm, which applied the segmentation and morphological processing in the images.

The primary goal of the current study was to investigate the impact of different first language backgrounds on early Chinese reading development by comparing a group of children who spoke a dialect at home and learned to speak and read Mandarin as a second language as soon as they attended Mandarin immersion programs with their Mandarin-speaking monolingual counterparts. The comparison involved five variables, two of which were measures of reading outcomes, word reading accuracy and vocabulary knowledge, and the other three were measures related to processing spoken languages, including rapid automatized naming, phonological awareness, and morphological awareness. The study was carried out in two phases. Participants in Phase One consisted of 30 dialect-dominant (DD) and 30 Mandarin-monolingual (MD) children from one kindergarten. Half of them were in their second year (K2), and the other half were in their third year of kindergarten (K3). Participants in Phase Two consisted of 218 dialect-dominant children from the third-year kindergarten to the third grade in one school. The assessments in Phase One were administered from March to April in 2011, and the assessments in Phase Two were administered from May to July in 2011. The current study added to extant literature by yielding several important findings with an under-represented population in Chinese reading research. First, the strong link between morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge, which has been documented in previous studies, is now extended to the group of DD children. Second, the current study revealed that in comparison to the MD group the DD group performed significantly poorer on Mandarin morphological construction in K2, indicating an impact of language proficiency in the development of morphological awareness. This impact appeared to affect the DD children's subsequent vocabulary development. Third, the current study showed grade variability in the rapid automatized naming (RAN)-Chinese reading relation and suggested that the component of language proficiency might affect children's rapid naming speed and moderate the relation of RAN to reading outcomes. Limitations of the current study and directions for future research are presented.

This study utilized the moving-window self-paced reading paradigm to investigate the processing of English morphemes by native speakers of English, Chinese, and Korean. The morphemes belonged to three distinct theoretical types: Stratum 1 derivation ({-ALADJ}, {-ITY}, and {-OUSADJ}), Stratum 2 derivation ({-NESS}, {-FULADJ}, and {-ERAGENT}), and inflection ({-SPL}, {-EDPAST}, and {-S3RDSGPRES}). Participants were presented with either (1) fully grammatical sentences which contained words featuring these morphemes or (2) ungrammatical sentences in which one word form lacked one of the morphemes when it was obligatory (e.g., Canada is one of the most *prosper and developed countries in the world). Half the sentences were presented with a concurrent working memory load, which consisted of remembering the result of a simple calculation (e.g., subtracting 3 from 95) while processing a sentence and reporting the number immediately thereafter. Reading times for the target word and the three words immediately following it were used as the main dependent variable. The background measures included a C-Test of English proficiency, a reading span task, a digits-forward task, a digits-backward task, and a detailed background questionnaire. In agreement with previous research, it was found that morphological violations tended to cause slowdowns in processing. Conversely, the presence of a concurrent memory load tended to cause speedups. Native speakers differed from non-native speakers by: (1) showing an early sensitivity to violations of Stratum 2 derivational morphology; (2) exhibiting a delayed response to violations of Stratum 1 derivation; and (3) not slowing down after violations of inflectional morphology. In addition, native speakers were the only group exhibiting no relationship between morphological processing on one side and short term-memory, working memory, and C-Test scores on the other. Overall, the similarity between native and non-native speakers was the greatest in the processing of Stratum 1 derivation. Crucially, the temporal pattern of the Korean participants’ responses to morphological violations in English placed them in an intermediate position between the English and Chinese native speakers, which was interpreted as evidence of L1 – L2 transfer in morphological processing. Notably, this transfer occurred between an agglutinative L1 and an unrelated mixed-type L2.

This study utilized the moving-window self-paced reading paradigm to investigate the processing of English morphemes by native speakers of English, Chinese, and Korean. The morphemes belonged to three distinct theoretical types: Stratum 1 derivation ({-ALADJ}, {-ITY}, and {-OUSADJ}), Stratum 2 derivation ({-NESS}, {-FULADJ}, and {-ERAGENT}), and inflection ({-SPL}, {-EDPAST}, and {-S3RDSGPRES}). Participants were presented with either (1) fully grammatical sentences which contained words featuring these morphemes or (2) ungrammatical sentences in which one word form lacked one of the morphemes when it was obligatory (e.g., Canada is one of the most *prosper and developed countries in the world). Half the sentences were presented with a concurrent working memory load, which consisted of remembering the result of a simple calculation (e.g., subtracting 3 from 95) while processing a sentence and reporting the number immediately thereafter. Reading times for the target word and the three words immediately following it were used as the main dependent variable. The background measures included a C-Test of English proficiency, a reading span task, a digits-forward task, a digits-backward task, and a detailed background questionnaire. In agreement with previous research, it was found that morphological violations tended to cause slowdowns in processing. Conversely, the presence of a concurrent memory load tended to cause speedups. Native speakers differed from non-native speakers by: (1) showing an early sensitivity to violations of Stratum 2 derivational morphology; (2) exhibiting a delayed response to violations of Stratum 1 derivation; and (3) not slowing down after violations of inflectional morphology. In addition, native speakers were the only group exhibiting no relationship between morphological processing on one side and short term-memory, working memory, and C-Test scores on the other. Overall, the similarity between native and non-native speakers was the greatest in the processing of Stratum 1 derivation. Crucially, the temporal pattern of the Korean participants’ responses to morphological violations in English placed them in an intermediate position between the English and Chinese native speakers, which was interpreted as evidence of L1 – L2 transfer in morphological processing. Notably, this transfer occurred between an agglutinative L1 and an unrelated mixed-type L2.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-02-04T10:41:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 danieledesouzaleitemolina.pdf: 1596778 bytes, checksum: 6be4b71981dbef447d38df98ca986b76 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-02-05T10:52:22Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 danieledesouzaleitemolina.pdf: 1596778 bytes, checksum: 6be4b71981dbef447d38df98ca986b76 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-05T10:52:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 danieledesouzaleitemolina.pdf: 1596778 bytes, checksum: 6be4b71981dbef447d38df98ca986b76 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-31 / Este trabalho investiga o reconhecimento, por crianças adquirindo o PB, da raiz como a parte do verbo que veicula seu significado permanente, apesar das variações flexionais disponibilizadas pelos afixos. Estudos sugerem que crianças em fase inicial de aquisição lexical tomam como palavras diferentes vocábulos que se distinguem em sua forma fonológica (JUSCZYK; ASLIN, 1995; BORTFELD et al., 2005; SHI; LEPAGE, 2008; JUSCZYK; HOUSTON; NEWSOME, 1999). Nesse sentido, a morfologia representaria um impasse para a aquisição lexical, já que os processos morfológicos (de derivação e, principalmente, de flexão) originam palavras fonologicamente distintas, porém relacionadas quanto ao significado. Como fundamentação teórica, assumimos a proposta de conciliação (CORRÊA, 2006; 2009a; 2011) entre a teoria linguística do Programa Minimalista (CHOMSKY, 1995 e obras posteriores) e o modelo de processamento psicolinguístico voltado para a aquisição da linguagem do Bootstrapping Fonológico (MORGAN; DEMUTH, 1996; CHRISTOPHE et al., 1997) com vistas a caracterizar a passagem de uma análise de base fonológica e distribucional do input para o tratamento sintático de enunciados linguísticos. Consideramos também a hipótese do Bootstrapping Sintático (GLEITMAN, 1990), segundo a qual a estrutura sintática (a grade argumental) guia o mapeamento do significado da sentença. Buscamos verificar, portanto, em que idade as crianças adquirindo o PB mapeiam variações de um mesmo verbo como tendo o mesmo conceito base. Partimos da hipótese de que é por meio do reconhecimento de afixos verbais recorrentes na língua em aquisição que a criança procede à segmentação interna do verbo em raiz e afixos, atribuindo à raiz verbal o conceito permanente. Com a técnica de Seleção de Imagem, obtivemos resultados que sugerem que, aos três anos de idade, crianças tendem a mapear uma ação a um novo verbo, porém, sobrecarga de memória parece limitar esse mapeamento. As crianças dessa faixa etária aparentam indecisão quanto ao significado das variações flexionais desse verbo. Já aos quatro anos de idade, dados robustos com as técnicas de Seleção de Imagem e de Encenação de Ações sugerem que crianças mapeiam uma ação a um novo verbo e que tratam as variações desse verbo como tendo o mesmo significado base. Além disso, uma atividade experimental realizada com uma técnica mais refinada, a de Fixação Preferencial do Olhar, aponta para o mapeamento de uma ação a um novo verbo e o tratamento de variações flexionais como tendo o mesmo conceito base por crianças mais novas, com idade em torno de dois anos. Com base no escopo teórico assumido neste trabalho, tais resultados apontam para o tratamento de uma pseudopalavra como verbo a partir de pistas distribucionais. Os resultados podem ser interpretados, ainda, como evidência da segmentação interna do verbo e do consequente reconhecimento da raiz verbal como a parte que veicula o significado base do vocábulo, adquirido a partir de pistas observacionais. / This work investigates the acknowledgement by children acquiring BP (Brazilian Portuguese) of the root as the part of the verb that has the permanent meaning, despite inflectional variations of affixes. Previous works suggest that children on an initial period of lexical acquisition treat words that have different phonological forms as completely different words (JUSCZYK; ASLIN, 1995; BORTFELD et al., 2005; SHI; LEPAGE, 2008; JUSCZYK; HOUSTON; NEWSOME, 1999). In this sense, morphology could represent trouble to lexical acquisition, as morphological processes (derivation and, mainly, inflection) create phonologically different words, but these words are related in meaning. We assume, as theoretical foundation, the proposal of conciliation (CORRÊA, 2006; 2009a; 2011) between a linguistic theory of the Minimalist Program (CHOMSKY, 1995 and latter works) and the psycholinguistic processing model aimed at language acquisition of Phonological Bootstrapping (MORGAN; DEMUTH, 1996; CHRISTOPHE et al., 1997) with the purpose to characterize the passage from a phonological and distributional analysis of the input to the syntactic treatment of linguistic statement. We also consider the Syntactic Bootstrapping hypothesis, which defends that syntactic structure guides the mapping of sentences’ meaning. We seek thus to verify in which age children acquiring BP map variations of the same verb as having the same base concept. We assume the hypothesis that is by recognizing recurrent verbal affixes on the language that is being acquired that child proceeds to the verbal internal segmentation between root and affixes, assigning the permanent concept to the root. The results we obtained with Picture Identification Tasks suggest three-year-old children tend to map an action into a novel verb, although memory seems to limit this mapping. Children of this age group appear to be uncertain about the meaning of the new verb’s variations. The methodological techniques of Picture Identification Task and Act Out provide robust data that four-year-old children map an action into a novel verb and treat variations of this novel verb as having the same base meaning. Besides, an experimental activity with Split-Screen Preferential Looking Paradigm, a finer technique, points out to the mapping of an action into a novel verb and the treatment of the verbal variations as having the same base concept by younger children, a two-year-old range group. According to the theoretical approach assumed in this work, our results point out to the treatment of a non-word as a verb due to distributional cues. The results can also be interpreted as evidence of the verbal internal segmentation and the consequent acknowledgement of the verbal root as the part of the word that has the base meaning, acquired by observational cues.

Three eye-tracking experiments were conducted to explore the effects of phonological, semantic and root activation in spoken word recognition (SWR) in Saudi Arabian Arabic. Arabic roots involve both phonological and semantic information, therefore, a series of three studies were conducted to isolate the effect of the root independently from phonological and semantic effects. Each experiment consisted of a series of trials. On each trial, participants were presented with a display with four images: a target, a competitor, and two unrelated images. Participants were asked to click on the target image. Participants' proportional fixations to the four areas of interest and their reaction times (RT) were automatically recorded and analyzed. The assumption is that eye movements to the different types of images and RTs reflect degrees of lexical activation. Experiment 1 served as a foundation study to explore the nature of phonological, semantic and root activation. Experiment 2A and 2B aimed to explore the effect of the Arabic root as a function of semantic transparency and phonological onset similarity. Growth Curve Analyses (Mirman, 2014, GCA;) were used to analyze differences in target and competitor fixations across conditions. Results of these experiments highlight the importance of phonological, semantic and root effects in SWR in Arabic. Fixations to competitors were graded and corresponded to the different amounts of phonological, semantic and morphological overlap between targets and competitors. The results of this work highlight the importance of the Arabic consonantal root as an independent processing unit in lexical access in SWR in Arabic that is separable from phonological and semantic units of processing. Finally, the results of this work provided support to models of SWR that feature both whole-word processing as well as morphological decomposition (e.g. Baayen, Dijkstra, & Schreuder, 1997; Giraudo & Grainger, 2000; Schreuder & Baayen, 1997). They also provide support to the morpheme-based theory of Arabic morphology (McCarthy, 1979, 1981).

The nature of the mental representation and processing of morphologically complex words has constituted one of the major points of controversy in psycholinguistic research over the past two decades. The Dual-Mechanism Model defends the necessity of two separate mechanisms for linguistic processing, an associative memory and a rule-system, which account for the processing of irregular and regular word forms, respectively. The purpose of the present study was to analyse the validity of the claims of the Dual-Mechanism Model for second language (L2) processing in order to contribute to the accumulating but so far equivocal knowledge concerning L2 processing. A second purpose of the study was to find out whether L2 proficiency could be identified as a determining factor in the processing of L2 morphology. Two experiments (a lexical decision task on the English past tense and a elicited production task on English lexical compounds) were run with 22 low-proficiency and 24 high-proficiency first language (L1) Turkish users of L2 English and with 6 L1 speakers of English. The results showed that the regular-irregular dissociation predicted by the Dual-Mechanism Model was clearly evident in the production of English lexical compounds for all three subject groups. A comparatively weaker dissociation coupled with intricate response patterns was found in the processing of the English past tense, though possibly because of a number of confounding factors that were not sufficiently controlled. In addition, direct comparisons of the L2 groups displayed a remarkable effect of L2 proficiency on L2 morphological processing.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-01-04T10:25:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 brunostefaniferreiradeoliveira.pdf: 714261 bytes, checksum: ee8494fe1d9b406575240e4e36235327 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-01-25T15:35:37Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 brunostefaniferreiradeoliveira.pdf: 714261 bytes, checksum: ee8494fe1d9b406575240e4e36235327 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-25T15:35:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 brunostefaniferreiradeoliveira.pdf: 714261 bytes, checksum: ee8494fe1d9b406575240e4e36235327 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-23 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / - / Research conducted in several countries has shown the importance of morphology in literacy. However, the results of the studies conducted in Brazilian−Portuguese are still inconsistent. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between morphological awareness and morphological processing and reading in Brazilian−Portuguese. The study included 141 children from Grades 2−5 from private schools. Morphological awareness, phonological awareness, phonological memory and nonverbal intelligence were evaluated. Also an experimental task of lexical decision with priming technique was developed, to assess the morphological processing. The results indicated that the relationship between morphological awareness and reading appears only when the children analyzed were in the Grade 1 and Grade 5. The morphological awareness explains 10% of the reading ability, when controlled other variables in the regression analysis assessed. The morphological processing is perceived in children from Grade 2 and gradually developed until the Grade 1, when it is possible to notice a pattern similar to adults. There was no correlation between morphological awareness and morphological processing. Therefore, morphological awareness has a very important function in children from Grade 4, which reinforces the importance of teaching strategies in literacy that take into account the function of the ability to manipulate the words in the morpheme level.

An important strand of research has investigated the question of how children acquire a morphological system using offline data from spontaneous or elicited child language. Most of these studies have found dissociations in how children apply regular and irregular inflection (Marcus et al. 1992, Weyerts & Clahsen 1994, Rothweiler & Clahsen 1993). These studies have considerably deepened our understanding of how linguistic knowledge is acquired and organised in the human mind. Their methodological procedures, however, do not involve measurements of how children process morphologically complex forms in real time. To date, little is known about how children process inflected word forms. The aim of this study is to investigate children’s processing of inflected words in a series of on-line reaction time experiments. We used a cross-modal priming experiment to test for decompositional effects on the central level. We used a speeded production task and a lexical decision task to test for frequency effects on access level in production and recognition. Children’s behaviour was compared to adults’ behaviour towards three participle types (-t participles, e.g. getanzt ‘danced’ vs. -n participles with stem change, e.g. gebrochen ‘broken’ vs.-n participles without stem change, e.g. geschlafen ‘slept’). For the central level, results indicate that -t participles but not -n participles have decomposed representations. For the access level, results indicate that -t participles are represented according to their morphemes and additionally as full forms, at least from the age of nine years onwards (Pinker 1999 and Clahsen et al. 2004). Further evidence suggested that -n participles are represented as full-form entries on access level and that -n participles without stem change may encode morphological structure (cf. Clahsen et al. 2003). Out data also suggests that processing strategies for -t participles are differently applied in recognition and production. These results provide evidence that children (within the age range tested) employ the same mechanisms for processing participles as adults. The child lexicon grows as children form additional full-form representations for -t participles on access level and elaborate their full-form lexical representations of -n participles on central level. These results are consistent with processing as explained in dual-system theories. / Ein wichtiger Forschungsbereich hat anhand von offline Daten erforscht wie Kinder das morphologische System erwerben. Die meisten dieser Studien haben berichtet, dass Kinder die regelmäßige und die unregelmäßige Flexion unterschiedlich anwenden (Marcus et al. 1992, Weyerts & Clahsen 1994, Rothweiler & Clahsen 1993). Diese Studien haben dazu beigetragen den Erwerb und Organisation von linguistischem Wissen besser zu verstehen. Die offline Methoden messen morphologische Verarbeitung allerdings nicht in Echtzeit. Bis heute ist wenig darüber bekannt wie Kinder flektierte Wortformen in Echtzeit verarbeiten. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat diese Frage in 6- bis 11jährigen monolingualen Kindern (in zwei Altersgruppen) und in einer Erwachsenen-Kontrollgruppe anhand von -t Partizipien (z.B. gemacht), -n Partizipien ohne Stammveränderung (z.B. geschlafen) und -n Partizipien mit Stammveränderung (z.B. gebrochen) untersucht. Dekomposition von Partizipien und deren ganzheitliche Speicherung in assoziativen Netzwerken wurden auf zwei Repräsentationsebenen (zentrale Ebene, Zugriffebene) und, auf der Zugriffsebene, in zwei Modalitäten (Produktion, Verstehen) experimentell getestet. Ein cross-modal priming experiment untersuchte die zentrale Repräsentation von Partizipien. Volle morphologische Primingeffekte sprechen für eine dekomponierte Repräsentation, partielle Primingeffekte für ganzheitliche aber verbundene Repräsentationen. In einem speeded production experiment wurde die auditive Zugriffsrepräsentation und in einem lexical decision experiment die visuelle Zugriffsrepräsentation von Partizipien untersucht. (Ganzwort-) Frequenzeffekte wurden als Beleg für Ganzwortrepräsentationen gewertet. Bezüglich der zentralen Ebene zeigen die Ergebnisse, dass -t Partizipien aber nicht -n Partizipien dekomponiert repräsentiert sind. Bezüglich der Zugriffsebene zeigen die Ergebnisse, dass -t Partizipien entsprechend ihrer Morpheme repräsentiert sind und zusätzlich Ganzwortrepräsentationen haben können, zumindest im Altersbereich von Neun- bis Elfjährigen (Pinker 1999 and Clahsen et al. 2004). Weitere Ergebnisse zeigten, dass -n Partizipien auf der Zugriffsebene Ganzwortrepräsentationen haben, und dass -n Partizipien ohne Stammveränderung die morphologische Struktur enkodieren können (cf. Clahsen et al. 2003). Die Daten weisen auch darauf hin, dass die Verarbeitungsstrategien für -t Partizipien, zumindest in Neun- bis Elfjährigen, unterschiedlich angewandt werden. Die Ergebnisse werden als Evidenz dafür interpretiert, dass Kinder (in dem getesteten Altersbereich) dieselben Verarbeitungsmechanismen für Partizipien nutzen wie Erwachsene. Das kindliche Lexikon wächst, wenn Kinder zusätzliche Ganzwortrepräsentationen für -t Partizipien auf der Zugriffsebene bilden und ihre Ganzwortrepräsentationen für -n Partizipien auf der zentralen Ebene ausdifferenzieren. Diese Ergebnisse sind konsistent mit den Annahmen dualer Verarbeitungstheorien.