ABSTRACT
In our calculations over lexica in chapter 3, we observed a consistent effect of phonotactics upon English prefixed words, but no effect upon suffixed words. Despite the fact that listeners rated words which contained illegal transitions across a suffixal morpheme boundary as being highly decomposable (cf. experiment 3), these words appeared no more likely to display characteristics of decomposability (such as semantic transparency) than words which contained legal transitions. We hypothesized that this is partially due to the left-to-right nature of speech.
