Affixal Homonymy triggers full-form storage, even with inflected words, even in a morphologically rich language

This paper investigates whether affixal homonymy, the phenomenon that one a ffix form serves two or more semantic/syntactic functions, affects lexical processing of inflected words in a similar way for a morphologically rich l anguage such as Finnish as for morphologically restricted languages such as Dutch and English. For the latter two languages, there is evidence that af fixal homonymy triggers full-form storage for inflected words (Bertram, R., Schreuder, R., and Baayen, R. H. (in press). The balance of storage and co mputation in morphological processing: the role of word formation type, aff ixal homonymy, and productivity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learni ng, Memory, and Cognition; Serene and Jongman (1997). Processing of English inflectional morphology. Memory and Cognition, 25, 425-437). Two visual le xical decision experiments show the same pattern for Finnish. Apparently, t he substantially richer morphology in Finnish does not prevent full-form st orage for inflected words when the affix is homonymic. (C) 2000 Elsevier Sc ience B.V. All rights reserved.