‘Verstehen’ (‘understand’) primes ‘stehen’ (‘stand’): Morphological structure overrides semantic compositionality in the lexical representation of German complex verbs

• We model the lexical representation of complex verbs in German. • We examine morphological priming effects under overt visual and auditory prime presentation. • Materials are real morphological derivations of the understand–stand type. • Morphological effects emerge independent of meaning composit...
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• We model the lexical representation of complex verbs in German. • We examine morphological priming effects under overt visual and auditory prime presentation. • Materials are real morphological derivations of the understand–stand type. • Morphological effects emerge independent of meaning compositionality. • Lexical representation of semantically transparent and opaque complex words occurs via the base. Ausführliche Beschreibung