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Hélène Giraudo
There is a general consensus among psycholinguists today that morphological information is explicitly represented in the mental lexicon and exploited during language processing. However, there is still much controversy surrounding the way such information is represented. In a generic hierarchically organized model of word recognition where sublexical codes are mapped onto whole-word orthographic and/or phonological codes, and from there to semantics, there are two possible locations for morphemic representations : below whole-word representations (the sublexical hypothesis) , or above the whole-word level (the supralexical hypothesis) . According to the sublexical hypothesis, a word stimulus is first parsed into its morphological components before the word can be recognized as a whole. According to the supralexical hypothesis, morphemic representations are contacted after whole- word representations and in this way impose an organization on lower-level form representations in terms of morphological families. Recent data obtained in French and using the priming paradigm associated with the lexical decision task are presented in support of a supralexical model of morphological representation for French derivational morphology.
