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Abstract
<p class="first" id="d4360942e99">Complex morphological processing has been extensively
studied in the past decades.
However, most of this work has either focused on only certain steps involved in this
process, or it has been conducted on a few languages, like English. The purpose of
the present study is to investigate the spatiotemporal cortical processing profile
of the distinct steps previously reported in the literature, from decomposition to
re-composition of morphologically complex items, in a relatively understudied language,
Greek. Using magnetoencephalography, we confirm the role of the fusiform gyrus in
early, form-based morphological decomposition, we relate the syntactic licensing of
stem-suffix combinations to the ventral visual processing stream, somewhat independent
from lexical access for the stem, and we further elucidate the role of orbitofrontal
regions in semantic composition. Thus, the current study offers the most comprehensive
test to date of visual morphological processing and additional, crosslinguistic validation
of the steps involved in it.
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