We tested the hypothesis that lexical-semantic access of inflected words is governed by the word stem. Object drawings overlaid with a dot/arrow marking position/movement were matched with corresponding linguistic expressions like “from the house”. To test whether the stem dominates lexical-semantic access irrespective of its position, we used Swedish prepositional phrases (locative information via preposition immediately preceding the stem) or Finnish case-inflected words (locative information via suffix immediately following the stem). Both in monolingual Swedish and in bilingual Finnish-Swedish speakers, correct stems with incorrect prepositions/case-endings were hardest to reject. This finding supports the view that the stem is indeed the dominant unit in meaning access of inflected words.
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机译：我们测试了以下假设：词变词的词义语义访问受词干控制。覆盖有点/箭头标记位置/运动的对象图纸与相应的语言表达形式相匹配，例如“ from the house”。为了测试词干是否在词法语义访问中占据主导地位，而不论其位置如何，我们使用了瑞典介词短语（通过词干紧接前的介词定位信息）或芬兰语变形词（通过词干紧随其后的后缀定位信息）。无论是瑞典语的双语者，还是芬兰语-瑞典语的双语者，最容易拒绝带有不正确介词/词尾的正确词干。这一发现支持了这样一种观点，即词干确实是在获取词尾变化时的主要单位。
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