Emergent properties of Japanese verbal inflection

This study investigates how speakers of Japanese mentally represent and process verbal inflection. Japanese exhibits an agglutinating inflectional typology, however, morpheme boundaries are not always transparent and there is considerable stem allomorphy. Furthermore, there are no bare stems. The st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klafehn, Terry
Other Authors: Peters, Ann M
Published: University of Hawaii at Manoa 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10125/6864