title: Interactive activation accounts of morphological decomposition: finding the trap in mousetrap?
abstract: Many accounts of the processing of morphologically complex words have been elaborated within the interactive activation model of word identification. Conceptually, this model adopts a "segmentation-through-recognition" approach to morphological decomposition, which assumes that a complex word activates representations of constituent morphemes as well as the representation of the whole word. However, a detailed consideration of the assumptions of interactive activation frameworks reveals that current implementations of the model are incapable of achieving segmentation-through-recognition.
authors.affiliation: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. S.Andrews@unsw.edu.au
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Andrews
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D012660:Semantics; D014825:Vocabulary