It’s hard to be talented

In a visual lexical decision task, recognition is shown in two experiments to be harder for possessional adjectives that look like they are inflected verbs (e.g., talented ) than for genuine inflected verbs (e.g., consulted ), especially when the nonword distractors have real-word stems (e.g., infanted ). Such a result implies that inflected words do not have a form-based whole word representation, but are recognized when functional information...