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Preparation of this chapter was supported by Grants no. FF12017-82460-P, from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, awarded to the first author, and no. PID2019-111198GB-I00, from the Spanish Ministry of Sience and Innovation, awarded to both authors.

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Words vs. rules: issues of storage in Spanish

Publicated to:The Routledge Handbook Of Spanish Morphology. 550-560 - 2021-01-01 (), DOI: 10.4324/9780429318191

Authors: Horno Chéliz, María del Carmen; Igoa González, José Manuel

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Univ Autonoma Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain - Author

Abstract

This chapter addresses the representation and storage of morphological units of complex words in Spanish. We frst review the main theoretical approaches to this issue, drawing on a distinction between dual-mechanism and single-mechanism models. Next, we present a general overview of the main sources of empirical evidence from adult language processing, language acquisition, and language impairments, focusing on topics like the psychological reality of a distinct level of morphological representation, the distinction between infectional and derivational morphology, or the contrast between regular and irregular words and paradigms. The chapter ends with an assessment of models of morphological representation in light of the empirical evidence previously reported. Most evidence supports a proper level of morphological representation in the lexicon and validates the distinction between infectional and derivational morphology but provides mixed results concerning the representation of regular vs irregular morphology.

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empirical evidenceerpformsinfections and derivationslanguagemorphologypsycholinguisticsregular and irregular morphologyMorphological representationVerb

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 7.47, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Jun 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-06-15, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 1

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-06-15:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 15.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 18 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 29.65.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 1 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 35 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on Wikipedia: 1 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (IGOA GONZALEZ, JOSE MANUEL).