Morphological productivity: psycholinguistic models and experimental data

In this article we first described word recognition theoretical models that included or take position about morphology. Models that have been proposed belong to a continuum going from morphology as part of the mental lexicon to morphology as a post-lexical phenomena. Between these two extreme models, others postulated more refined processes taking into account linguistic and/or statistical parameters. In a second part, experimental data that are theoretically or statistically linked to productivity are exposed; in particular, the non-word structures effect, the morphological family size effect, the semantic transparency effect and the affix productivity effect.