MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH WORDS. MORPHEMES. FREE AND BOUND FORMS, MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF WORDS, WORD-FAMILIES

Abstract

The present study aims to determine whether semantic relatedness plays a role in the production of speech errors involving derivational morphemes. A word order competition technique was used to induce morpheme and syllable exchange errors. Semantic relatedness was manipulated by contrasting error rates for prefixed words derived from free stems to those derived from bound roots.