Dissociating syntactic licensing from semantic well-formedness in South Slavic complex pseudoword processing /

Key Points

• The research aims to differentiate how syntactic structures and semantic meanings are processed in South Slavic languages.
• Experimental tasks were conducted to examine pseudoword processing in South Slavic speakers.
• Participants evaluated syntactic licensing and semantic well-formedness of generated pseudowords.
• Participants showed distinct processing patterns for syntactic licensing compared to semantic well-formedness.
• Processing of pseudowords revealed that syntactic cues had a faster recognition compared to semantic cues.