"Rule-based"or"Network-based":State of the Art in the Neural Representation of Morphologically Complex Words
The purpose of this review is to provide a comprehensive overview on the state-of-the-art of the research on the neural mechanisms of morphological processing.The main debates regarding the neurocognition of morphology at the word level have revolved around the distinction between"rule-based"&"network-based"approaches.Whereas both of these model types come in several different flavours,the basic controversy between them pertains to the question of whether linguistic regularities are generated by rule-based knowledge or not.We summarize findings on inflected,derived and compound words,their interpretations with respect to current neurolinguistic models,and discuss methodological approaches as well as their possible limitations.