I provide evidence that ber constructions in Indonesian are derived via head movement, rejecting potential alternative lexicalist accounts in terms of lexical compounding.
Perhaps the fact that these defaults are not so easily cancellable comes from their property of resembling lexical compounds and, like in the case of compounds, the link between the juxtaposed lexemes is very strong in their case.
Also, there is extensive lexical compounding, e.g., the word 電視 [/din6 si6/; television] is composed of the morphemes 電 [/din6/; electric] and 視 [/si6/; vision].
It was shown that, for transparent but not opaque compounds, lexical decision times to two-constituent 1 compound words were speeded up by a preceding prime that was semantically related to either the first or second constituent of the target compound word (Sandra, 1990; Zwitserlood, 1994).
Compound lexical frequency and meaning transparency affect the MMN.
If indeed it is plausible to treat them on a par with compounds, then they are not very useful as a supporting argument for local defaults: instead of defaults, we have lexical meaning of compounds.
For example, words like bank, recover, and cool have multiple meanings even as members of the same lexical category; nominal compounds such as ice bucket, ice sculpture, olive oil, or baby oil leave unspecified the underlying relation between the nominals (such as constituency or purpose).
Orthogonally to transparency, the compound lexical-frequency was systematically modulated.
The lack of frequency effects for transparent compounds is clear evidence against a purely lexical account of transparent compound processing (which would predict a lexical MMN: high frequency > low frequency compounds > pseudo-compounds).
More specifically, linguistic analyses generally consist of the following processes: - Segmentation of free-text data into lexical units (single words, compound words).
