Explaining uncertainty and defectivity of inflectional paradigms

A Nikolaev, N Bermel - Cognitive Linguistics, 2022 - degruyter.com
The current study investigates how native speakers of a morphologically complex language
(Finnish) handle uncertainty related to linguistic forms that have gaps in their inflectional …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of morphological family on word recognition in normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease

A Nikolaev, S Ashaie, M Hallikainen, T Hänninen… - cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
Reading a word activates morphologically related words in the mental lexicon. People with
Alzheimer's disease (AD) or Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) often have difficulty retrieving …

Production of inflected novel words in older adults with and without dementia

A Nikolaev, E Higby, JM Hyun, M Lehtonen… - Cognitive …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
While cognitive changes in aging and neurodegenerative disease have been widely
studied, language changes in these populations are less well understood. Inflecting novel …

Lexical decision task for studying written word recognition in adults with and without dementia or mild cognitive impairment

A Nikolaev, E Higby, JM Hyun, S Ashaie - JoVE (Journal of Visualized …, 2019 - jove.com
Older adults are slower at recognizing visual objects than younger adults. The same is true
for recognizing that a letter string is a real word. People with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or …

[HTML][HTML] Neural responses to Finnish inflected forms during overt and covert production: The role of stem frequency and stem allomorphy

LA Hedlund, P Wikman, SCA Hut, A Leminen - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite extensive behavioral research on complex word recognition, the neural
mechanisms involved in the production of inflections in agglutinative languages, such as …

Stable complexity: verbal inflection in prominent and frequent environments

L Denk - 2023 - digitalrepository.unm.edu
Despite presenting challenges for speakers, complex linguistic features such as lexically
conditioned inflection (LCI) persist across different languages. LCI forms part of not entirely …

Production of Inflected Novel Words in Older Adults With and Without Dementia

M Lehtonen - Cognitive Science, 2020 - duo.uio.no
While cognitive changes in aging and neurodegenerative disease have been widely
studied, language changes in these populations are less well understood. Inflecting novel …