ABSTRACT
The last three decades of research in lexical psycholinguistics has been characterized by an increasing concentration on words that contain more than one morpheme. This development has opened up new areas of discussion and new opportunities for theoretical and experimental advancement. The development has also played a role in bringing greater language diversity to a field in which canonical words tended to be viewed as morphologically simple units. In fact, however, simple words constitute the exceptional, rather than normal, word types in the majority of the world’s languages.
