The role of the morpho-phonological word-pattern unit in single-word production in Hebrew

Complex words in Hebrew are composed of two non-concatenated interwoven units: (1) a consonantal root morpheme usually comprising three consonants, embedded within (2) a word-pattern morpho-phonological unit made up of vowels or vowels + consonants. The word-pattern unit provides segmental, vocalic and metrical structure information about the word. Using the picture–word interference paradigm with auditorily presented distractors, we...