@article{ReifegersteMeyerZwitserlood2017,
  author    = {Reifegerste, Jana and Meyer, Antje and Zwitserlood, Pienie},
  title     = {Inflectional complexity and experience affect plural processing in younger and older readers of Dutch and German},
  series = {Language, cognition and neuroscience},
  volume    = {32},
  journal   = {Language, cognition and neuroscience},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {2327-3798},
  doi       = {10.1080/23273798.2016.1247213},
  pages     = {471 -- 487},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {According to dual-route models of morphological processing, regular inflections can be retrieved as whole-word forms or decomposed into morphemes. Baayen, Dijkstra, and Schreuder [(1997). Singulars and plurals in Dutch: Evidence for a parallel dual-route model. Journal of Memory and Language, 37, 94-117. doi:10.1006/jmla.1997.2509] proposed a dual-route model in which singular-dominant plurals ("brides") are decomposed, while plural-dominant plurals ("peas") are accessed as whole-word units. We report two lexical-decision experiments investigating how plural processing is influenced by participants' age and morphological complexity of the language (German/Dutch). For all Dutch participants and older German participants, we replicated the interaction between number and dominance reported by Baayen and colleagues. Younger German participants showed a main effect of number, indicating decomposition of all plurals. Access to stored forms seems to depend on morphological richness and experience with word forms. The data pattern fits neither full-decomposition nor full-storage models, but is compatible with dual-route models.},
  language  = {en}
}