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LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES, 2000, 15 (4/5), 367–388

The role of context in morphological processing: Evidence from Finnish Raymond Bertram, Jukka Hyo¨na¨, and Matti Laine

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University of Turku, Turku, Finland This paper is concerned with the role of context on the processing of inected nouns in Finnish. IdentiŽcation of partitive plurals with the homonymic sufŽx -jA was studied by presenting the target nouns in a sentence context and by recording durations of readers’ eye Žxations and self-paced reading times for these targets. A recent visual lexical decision study indicated that the same inected words with -jA were sensitive to surface frequency manipulations, but not to base frequency manipulations. The authors interpreted these results to suggest that these inectional forms are stored and processed by means of their whole-word representations. In contrast, the present context study shows both a surface frequency effect and a lagged base frequency effect. We argue that syntactic cues prior to the target word prime the inectional reading of the -jA sufŽx, and as a consequence the base is reinstated as an effective unit in processing these nouns with a homonymic sufŽx.

INTRODUCTION The vast majority of studies that have examined the role of morphology in word recognition have employed the simple lexical decision paradigm where isolated words are presented for identiŽcation. Only relatively few studies have examined morphological processing by presenting the critical words in a sentence context (Hyo¨na¨ & Pollatsek, 1998; Hyo¨na¨, Vainio, & Laine, 2000; Inhoff, 1989; Inhoff, Briihl, & Schwartz, 1996; Lima, 1987; Niswander, Pollatsek, & Rayner, this issue; Pollatsek, Hyo¨na¨, & Bertram,

Requests for reprints should be addressed to Raymond Bertram, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland. Email: rayber@utu.Ž. We wish to thank Keith Rayner and one anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. This study was Žnancially supported by the Finnish Graduate School of Psychology (grant of the Finnish Ministry of Education to the Žrst author). c 2000 Psychology Press Ltd http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pp/01690965.html

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in press). This is quite surprising, as ultimately one would like to know how morphology inuences word identiŽcation in normal, continuous reading. One may be tempted to generalise Žndings observed in lexical decision directly to reading, but this is not warranted without sound empirical evidence. Indeed, Hyo¨na¨ et al. (2000) showed that a morphological effect observed in lexical decision may not generalise to reading. In this paper we report four experiments that investigated morphological processing in reading. The starting point for this study was that of Bertram, Laine, Baayen, Schreuder and Hyo¨na¨ (2000a), which examined the role of inectional sufŽxes in recognising Finnish nouns by using the lexical decision paradigm. They employed the sufŽx -jA,1 denoting the partitive case in the plural form. An interesting feature of the -jA sufŽx is that it is homonymic in the sense that it can not only be used to denote partitive plural, but it is also the subject noun marker in derivational formations like tutki + ja ‘‘researcher’’. Moreover, it also appears as a free morpheme ja, which is equivalent to and in English. However, it should be noted that the whole word form containing the -jA sufŽx is basically unambiguous: it is almost always clear which one of the two afŽxal functions is employed. The subject noun marker -jA is deverbal and therefore the stem has to be a verbal form; the partitive plural -jA is a nominal inection and therefore the stem has to be a noun. In one experiment, Bertram et al. (2000a) manipulated the base frequency of these inected words while matching for the surface frequency; in the other experiment, they manipulated the surface frequency while matching for the base frequency. For the word hattu/ja (= hat + partitive plural) the base frequency is the frequency of hattu plus the frequency of all its inectional variants, whereas the surface frequency is the frequency of the inected form itself. Bertram et al. (2000a) reported a reliable surface frequency effect in lexical decision times in the absence of a base frequency effect. They interpreted the results to suggest that these inectional forms are stored and accessed by their full forms. If the words were recognised via their constituent morphemes (i.e., base + sufŽx), they should have observed an effect for base frequency as well. It is assumed that computation was still attempted (as a parallel dual route model in the spirit of Schreuder and Baayen, 1995, would suggest), but it would be slowed down to the extent that it is not operative in the recognition process. Bertram et al. (2000a) argue that the confusion in the decomposition route derives from the more central processing levels of licensing and meaning computation (see Schreuder & Baayen, 1995, for a more detailed 1 The capital A in -jA denotes an archephoneme that is realised as a front vowel a¨ or a back vowel a depending on the phonological properties of the stem.

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description of these processing levels). At the licensing stage, the stage where subcategorisation issues are sorted out, there is confusion, because the activated deverbal -jA option is ‘‘looking for’’ a verbal base where there is none. On compositional level, the strongly activated ‘‘agent marker’’ semantics for -jA has to be suppressed to free the way for the only correct inectional reading of the sufŽx. Bertram et al. (2000a) note that the effect of homonymy is particularly felt, because the derivational variant of -jA is a strong competitor of the inectional variant. As a matter of fact, the derivational variant is more frequently used than the inectional one. The 22.7 million lexical database on written Finnish employed by Laine and Virtanen (1999) lists 83 974 occurrences of the sufŽx, of which 65.5% appears as derivational sufŽxes. Therefore Bertram et al. (2000a) argue that for the homonymic inectional formations with jA full-form representations are developed via which processing takes place. At the same time processing via the decomposition route takes place, but is seriously slowed down by the activation of the derivational alternative of the -jA sufŽx. Note that here we assume that processing of a morphologically complex word is not a strict left-to-right process where the stem is recognised Žrst and the sufŽx second. If that were the case, the grammatical class of the stem would have had a disambiguating role by giving a pointer as to which function of the homonymic sufŽx is the appropriate one. In line with parallel processing models, we assume that visual lexical access to stem and afŽx takes place simultaneously. For instance, the Augmented Addressed Morphology model claims that ‘‘a letter string will simultaneously activate all the access units that correspond to parts of the stimulus’’ (Chialant & Caramazza, 1995, p. 64). Baayen, Burani, and Schreuder (1997, p. 17) argue that during morpheme-based access to inected words ‘‘the access representations of these afŽxes become activated long before the access representations of the roots’’, mainly because the afŽx string is almost always of much higher frequency than the accompanying root.2 The notion of whole-word storage of inected nouns may come as a surprise for an agglutinative language like Finnish with its rich morphology. The homonymic afŽxes studied by Bertram et al. (2000a) may indeed make up a special case, as previous lexical decision experiments that have employed a wide variety of noun inections have consistently suggested that inected Finnish nouns are accessed via the decomposition route (Bertram, Laine, & Karvinen, 1999; Hyo¨na¨, Laine, & Niemi, 1995; Laine & Koivisto, 1998; Laine, Niemi, Koivuselka¨-Sallinen, 2

It may be that at the semantic level, the information carried by the stem is of primary importance (see Laine, 1999), but this does not exclude the possibility of parallel access during visual word recognition.

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Ahlse´n & Hyo¨na¨, 1994; Laine, Niemi, Koivuselka¨-Sallinen, & Hyo¨na¨, 1995; Laine, Vainio, & Hyo¨na¨, 1999; Niemi, Laine, & Tuominen, 1994). The current study was conducted to test whether the rather surprising results of Bertram et al. (2000a) hold when the critical words are presented in a sentence context. Tyler and Marslen-Wilson (1986) showed in a gating study that inected words in a context providing strong syntactic cues with respect to the type of inection coming up are identiŽed as soon as the base is identiŽed. They used sentences like ‘‘For many years they had been regularly corresponding’’ in which after the presentation of the stem correspond, -ing is syntactically the most likely sufŽx. In other words, a strong syntactic context renders a speciŽc sufŽx practically redundant. In our case this could imply that the base frequency effect which was absent in visual lexical decision reappears in context, provided that the context provides cues to make the -jA sufŽx sufŽciently predictable. In order to get an insight into the nature of the case inections studied here, we will provide some qualitative and lexical-statistical information on the Finnish language. The partitive case is the third most common case inection (Pajunen, unpublished manuscript, calculated that 13.7% of all case-inected nouns appear in the partitive). It is the dominant case of the sentence object; in a syntactic corpus study (Hakulinen, Karlsson, & Vilkuna, 1980), 58% of sentence objects appeared in the partitive (20% took the genitive case and 21% the nominative case). When marking the sentence object, a choice needs to be made between the partitive and the genitive/nominative case primarily on the basis of the completeness of the act denoted by the predicate. The partitive is used for uncompleted acts, whereas the genitive/nominative is used when the act is performed to its completion. (The nominative case is also used for objects in the imperative and passive sentences.) Consider the sentence Ha¨n luki kirjaa ‘‘He read a book’’ in which the noun kirja ‘‘book’’ appears in the partitive form kirjaa. It is implied here that the subject was reading a book, but that s/he has not completed it. In contrast, when kirja occurs in its genitive form in this sentence (Ha¨n luki kirjan), the action is completed. Also the clause subject can sometimes appear in the partitive case (7% of all clause subjects in the corpus study of Hakulinen et al., 1980) when the predicate is an intransitive verb as in existential sentences (in English, ‘‘There are . . .’’); with transitive verbs, the subject always appears in the nominative case (i.e., the non-inected base form of the noun). Regarding intransitive verbs, a choice is made between partitive and nominative depending on the deŽniteness of the subject phrase; with indeŽnite subjects the partitive form is used, and with deŽnite subjects the nominative form is used. Consider the sentence Asusteessa oli taskuja, jotka eiva¨t na¨kyneet ulospa¨in (‘‘In the (piece of) clothing there are pockets, which cannot be seen from the outside.’’), in which the subject taskuja ‘‘pockets’’ appears in

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the partitive form. With this partitive form, it remains open as to how many pockets there are, and moreover, the possibility exists that there are other pockets which are perfectly visible from the outside. In contrast, when the partitive plural taskuja would be replaced with the nominative plural taskut, the reader would know that all the pockets in the piece of clothing are invisible from outside. The partitive plural nouns of Bertram et al. (2000a) were embedded in single sentences and appeared there either as clause objects or clause subjects. The syntactic role the target noun took in the critical sentences was strongly constrained by the preceding context, but as can be seen from the examples above, not as strongly as in the study of Tyler and MarslenWilson (1986). In our case, the exact form of the target word was not given by the context (i.e., which case ending it took, if any, or whether it was singular or plural), but it was a very likely option. We suggested earlier that the partitive plurals are processed in parallel by holistic and decomposition processing routes along the lines of the Schreuder and Baayen model (1995). However, in recognising these words in isolation the ambiguity of the sufŽx would slow down the decomposition route to an extent that it is not actively involved in word recognition. We hypothesise that in the present study the contextual clues in our target sentences are strong enough to prime the inectional function of the -jA sufŽx and with that will reinstate the base as an effective unit in processing the partitive plurals. In order to examine this hypothesis we employed eyetracking (Experiments 1A and 2A) and self-paced reading (Experiments 1B and 2B) as the methods. Experiments 1A and 1B tested the effects of base frequency, and Experiments 2A and 2B those of surface frequency. In all experiments, each high-frequency target was paired with a low-frequency target, and a sentence frame was constructed that was identical up to the word following the target. Semantic plausibility of the sentences was matched by conducting a separate rating study. The target noun was never the sentence-Žnal word, but it was typically succeeded by a relative pronoun followed by a relative clause. Subjects were instructed to read the sentences for comprehension; no mention was made of the existence of speciŽc target words. EXPERIMENT 1A In Experiments 1A and 2A, we employed readers’ eyetracking as the measure of on-line processing. Eyetracking has now become the most preferred method to study on-line visual language processing (see Rayner, 1998). One of the most attractive features of the method is that it allows readers to freely inspect the text the way they wish.

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Experiment 1A examined the effect of base frequency on the processing of inected nouns, such as hattu/ja (‘‘hat’’ + partitive plural), while matching for the surface frequency (and some other features, see Materials). If low base frequency nouns take longer to read than high base frequency nouns, it would imply that word stem plays an important role in identifying these inected words. That in turn can be taken as evidence to support the view that these inected forms are decomposed into constituent morphemes for their successful recognition. On the other hand, lack of a base frequency effect would imply that these inected nouns are identiŽed via the full form. Method Participants. Twenty-four students of the University of Turku participated in the experiment. All were native speakers of Finnish. Apparatus. Eye movements were collected by the EYELINK eyetracker manufactured by SR Research Ltd. (Canada). The eyetracker is an infra-red video-based tracking system combined with hyperacuity image processing. There are two cameras mounted on a headband (one for each eye) including two infra-red LEDs for illuminating each eye. The headband weighs 450 g in total. The cameras sample pupil location and pupil size at the rate of 250 Hz. Registration is monocular and is performed for the selected eye by placing the camera and the two infrared light sources 4–6 cm away from the eye. The spatial accuracy is better than 0.5 degrees. Head position with respect to the computer screen is tracked with the help of a head-tracking camera mounted on the centre of the headband at the level of the forehead. Four LEDs are attached to the corners of the computer screen, which are viewed by the head tracking camera, once the subject sits directly facing the screen. Possible head motion is detected as movements of the four LEDs and is compensated for on-line from the eye position records. The system allows free head motion within a 100 cm cube. The compensation is better than 1 degree over the acceptable range of head motion. Materials. The target words were adopted from Bertram et al. (2000a). Forty inected nouns with the partitive plural marker -jA were selected from an unpublished computerised newspaper corpus with the help of the WordMill database program of Laine and Virtanen (1999). For the forms used in the present study no stem formation was needed, but all stems appeared in their ‘‘dictionary form’’. Twenty target nouns had a high base frequency with a mean of 54 per million (range 15–254), whereas the other twenty had a low base frequency with a mean of 10 per million (range 1–25). The two sets were matched for

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surface frequency (high 1.1; low 1.1; all frequency counts reported are scaled to one million), family size3 (high 151; low 131), bigram frequency (high 836; low 756), and word length in letters (high 7.1; low 6.9). The complete list of target items is given in the appendix of Bertram et al. (2000a), together with individual item RTs. The target words were embedded in sentences by having each target word appear in a separate sentence. Each of the high base frequency words was paired with a low base frequency word, and a sentence frame was constructed that was identical up through the word following the target word; the rest of the sentence was different. To match for the semantic plausibility, a rating study was conducted, in which both versions of the sentence pairs were listed underneath each other, and 7 subjects who did not participate in the experiment proper rated the naturalness of the sentences by using one of three possible alternatives: sentence 1 sounds more natural, sentence 2 sounds more natural, or sentence 1 and 2 sound equally natural. If the majority of the subjects (at least 4 out of 7) rated one sentence to be more natural than the other, a new sentence frame was constructed. An example of a sentence pair is shown below (the target word is shown in bold). The complete list of stimulus materials is presented in the Appendix. Low base frequency: Kaulassa nainen ka¨ytti koruja , jotka olivat silmiinpista¨va¨n suuret. ‘‘Around her neck the woman used jewelry, which was noticeably big.’’ High base frequency: Kaulassa nainen ka¨ytti ketjuja , jotka na¨yttiva¨t vanhanaikaisilta. ‘‘Around her neck the woman used necklaces, which looked oldfashioned.’’ The target sentences were presented one at a time in the centre of a computer screen. The sentences extended a maximum of 2 lines of text; the critical word never appeared as the initial or Žnal word of a text line. The target sentences were mixed with 64 Žller sentences. The sentences were presented in two blocks, and the order of the blocks was counterbalanced across subjects. Within a block, the order of sentences was randomised.

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Procedure. Prior to the experiment, the eyetracker was calibrated using a 9 point calibration grid that extended over the entire computer screen. Prior to each sentence, the calibration was checked by presenting a Žxation point in a centre-left position of the screen; if needed, calibration was automatically corrected, after which a sentence was presented to the right of the Žxation point. Subjects were instructed to read the sentences for comprehension at their own pace. They were further told that periodically they would be asked to paraphrase the last sentence they had read to make sure that they attended to what they read. It was emphasised that the task was to comprehend, not to memorise the sentences. Subjects were asked to paraphrase a sentence approximately after every 10 sentences. The experimental session lasted a maximum of 30 minutes. Results and discussion First Žxation and gaze duration (the time spent reading a word prior to exiting it) on the target and on the word following the target word were used as the dependent measures. In addition, the skipping rate (the probability of leaving a word unŽxated) and the probability of making more than one Žxation on the word were analysed. A set of t tests were computed on the Žrst Žxation and gaze durations using both subjects (t1) and items (t2) as the random variable. For the skipping rate and probability of more than one Žxation only the item analysis was conducted (the subject analysis was dropped due to many empty cells). The analyses by subjects were done using the paired samples test and the analysis by items using the independent samples test. The average durations, skipping rates and probabilities are given in Table 1. Target word. Base frequency did not exert an effect for Žrst Žxation duration (t1 and t2 < 1) or gaze duration (t1 and t2 < 1); high base frequency words elicited exactly the same Žrst Žxation durations as low base frequency words and produced 1 ms shorter gaze durations than low base frequency words. The skipping rates were very low and identical for the high base and the low base frequency condition (t2 < 1). The probability of making more than 1 Žxation on the target was slightly higher for the high base than for the low base frequency condition, but this difference did not reach signiŽcance (t2(38) = 1.3, p > .15). Word following the target. As the word following the target word was identical for the sentence pairs, we were able to reliably examine possible lagged effects in processing. The analysis included only those trials in which a saccade was made from the target to the subsequent word. Two

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TABLE 1 First ® xation durations (ms, with SD), mean gaze durations (ms, with SD), skipping rates (%), the probability of more than one ® xation (%), and word reading times (ms, with SD) for in¯ ected words with the partitive plural marker -jA (target word) with high versus low base frequency and for words following the target word (target word + 1)

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Experiment 1a First Žxation 213 Gaze duration 237 Skipping rate 2.9 Probability of more 17.1 than 1 Žxation Experiment 1b Word RT 615

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213 238 2.9 14.4 622

SD 33 48

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194 194 40.2 0.0 561

SD 33 33

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202 202 38.5 0.2 583

SD 32 31

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items were discarded (1 from the high frequency and 1 from the low frequency condition) because they were almost always skipped. The word following a low base frequency target was read with 8 ms longer Žrst Žxation durations than the word following a high base frequency target; the difference was signiŽcant in the analysis by subjects (t1(23) = 2.32, p < .05, t2(36) = 1.14, p > .1). For the gaze duration, a similar difference was observed (t1(23) = 2.40, p < .05, t2(36) = 1.22, p > .1). The probability of more than 1 Žxation was practically zero in both conditions (t2(38) < 1). The skipping rates were remarkably high in both conditions (around 40%), but they did not differ signiŽcantly from each other (t2(38) < 1). The results of Experiment 1A show a base frequency effect that is not obtained when reading the target word itself, but only when Žxating on the word following the target. Even there the size of the effect is small and non-signiŽcant in the analysis by items. The lack of a base frequency effect for the word itself is not due to the frequency manipulation being too weak to show an effect. Namely, Bertram et al. (2000a) ran a control experiment where the word bases were presented without the sufŽx and found a reliable frequency effect in lexical decision times. One possible reason for the effect on the word following the target word to remain non-signiŽcant in the item analysis is the frequent skipping of this word, which signiŽcantly reduces the power for observing an effect. Therefore Experiment 1B was designed to study further the role of base frequency by using the method of self-paced reading. In this method, readers advance in the text word by word by pressing a button on the computer keyboard. The method does not allow word skipping, so it

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provides a reading time for every word of the sentence (even for those that would be typically skipped in normal reading). EXPERIMENT 1B Method

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Participants. Twenty-four university students served as subjects; none took part in Experiment 1A. All were native speakers of Finnish. Materials. The same sentences were employed as in Experiment 1A. The only difference was that the self-paced reading program did not allow randomisation of sentences within a block. As a consequence, we Žxed the sentence order by presenting 4 target sentences in a set of every 10 sentences; the target sentences were always separated from each other at least by one Žller sentence. Procedure. An IBM compatible PC with a specially made program was used to present the sentences and measure the reading times. The words were presented on the computer screen one at a time starting from the top left corner of the screen. Only one word at a time was visible; the subsequent word appeared immediately to the right of the preceding word. The reader advanced in the sentence by pressing the space bar in the computer keyboard. The word reading time was the time elapsed between two key strokes. In other respects, the procedure was identical to the one employed in the eyetracking experiments. Results and discussion Target word. There was a slight tendency for the low base frequency words to receive longer (7 ms) reading times than high base frequency words, but the effect was not signiŽcant, t1(23) = 1.71, p = .1, t2(38) < 1. Word following the target. The reading time for the word following the target was signiŽcantly longer (23 ms) when it was preceded by a low base frequency noun than by a high base frequency noun, t1(23) = 2.07, p < .05, t2(38) = 2.08, p < .05. As in the corresponding eye tracking experiment, the base frequency effect failed to show up for the reading of the target word itself. Also similarly to the eyetracking experiment, an effect of base frequency was observed as a lagged effect, revealed by the reading times for the word following the target. This time the effect was also signiŽcant in the item analysis, which supports our suggestion that the non-signiŽcance of the item analysis in the eyetracking experiment was due to insufŽcient data, and thus lack of statistical power.

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The results depart from those of Bertram et al. (2000a) who did not observe any signs for a base frequency effect in lexical decision times. We defer the discussion of this difference to the General Discussion.

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EXPERIMENT 2A Experiment 2A examined the effect of surface frequency on reading inected nouns. As in Experiment 1A, readers’ eye movements were recorded. A set of nouns with relatively high surface frequency was contrasted to a set of low surface frequency nouns while matching for base frequency. The experiment tested whether the surface frequency effect observed by Bertram et al. (2000a) in lexical decision will generalise to continuous reading. Method Participants. Twenty-eight university students served as subjects; none took part in the previous experiment. All were native speakers of Finnish. Apparatus. The same apparatus was used as in Experiment 1A. Materials. The forty inected nouns with the partitive plural marker -jA were adopted from Bertram et al. (2000a). Twenty nouns had a relatively high surface frequency with an average of 4.6 per million (range 0.8–26.4), the other twenty target items had a relatively low surface frequency with the average of 0.4 per million (range 0.04–1.3). The two sets were matched for base frequency (high 35; low 35), family size (high 199; low 173), bigram frequency (high 958; low 868), and word length in letters (high 7.0; low 6.9). Procedure. The procedure was identical to that of Experiment 1A. Results and discussion Target word. Low surface frequency nouns elicited 9 ms longer Žrst Žxation durations than high surface frequency nouns. This difference came out signiŽcantly in the subject analysis, but in the item analysis only a tendency for signiŽcance could be observed (t1(27) = 2.56, p < .02; t2(38) = 1.50, p = .14). The low surface frequency nouns were read with 17 ms longer gazes than high surface frequency nouns, the effect being reliable in the subject analysis, t1(27) = 3.03, p < .01, and marginally reliable in the item analysis t2(38) = 1.79, p = .08. The skipping rates in both conditions were negligible and did not differ from each other (t2(38) = 1.34, p > .15). Also the probability of more than one Žxation did not signiŽcantly differ between the conditions (t2 < 1).

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TABLE 2 First ® xation durations (ms, with SD), mean gaze durations (ms, with SD), skipping rates (%), the probability of more than one ® xation (%) and word reading times (ms, with SD) for in¯ ected words with the partitive plural marker -jA (target word) with high versus low surface frequency and for words following the target word (target word + 1)

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Word following the target. Gaze durations for the word following the target were also inuenced by surface frequency (t1(27) = 4.26, p < .001; t2(36) = 1.83, p < .08). The word following a low surface frequency target was read with 21 ms longer gazes than the word following a high frequency target. First Žxation durations were 9 ms shorter for the word following a high frequency target than the word following a low frequency target. This difference came out signiŽcantly in the subject analysis, but not in the item analysis (t1(27) = 2.68, p < .02; t2(36) = 1.21, p > .15). Two items were discarded (one from each condition) because they were almost always skipped. The skipping rates were quite high (around 20%), but did not reliably differ between the two conditions (t2(38) = 1.83, p < .08) and neither did the probability of making more than one Žxation (t2(38) = 1.26, p > .15). Experiment 2A replicated the surface frequency effect observed by Bertram et al. (2000a) and extended it to normal reading. Moreover, the experiment showed that the effect is seen both for the target word itself and for the word following the target. The latter Žnding suggests that the surface frequency effect spills over to later processing—a Žnding that has been reported previously (see Rayner & Duffy, 1986; Rayner, Sereno, Morris, Schmauder, & Clifton, 1989). EXPERIMENT 2B We conducted a parallel self-paced reading experiment to Experiment 2A, in which effects of surface frequency were tested by tracking readers’ eye

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movements. The motivation for this experiment was to replicate the surface frequency effect observed both in lexical decision (Bertram et al., 2000a) and in eyetracking (Experiment 2A). Method Participants. Twenty-four university students served as subjects; none took part in the previous experiments. All subjects were native speakers of Finnish.

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Materials. The same sentences were employed as in Experiment 2A. Procedure. The procedure was identical to that of Experiment 1B. Results and discussion Target word. Surface frequency did not produce an effect for the selfpaced reading times, if anything, there was a non-signiŽcant trend for the high surface frequency targets to produce longer reading times than low surface frequency targets (t1(23) = 1.94; p > .05, t2(38) < 1). Word following the target. A reliable surface frequency effect was observed in the reading times for the word following the target noun, t1(23) = 2.93, p < .01, t2(38) = 2.64, p < .02. Words following a low surface frequency target were read for 38 ms longer than words following a high surface frequency target. The self-paced reading experiment established a surface frequency effect, but only as a lagged effect showing up in the processing of the word following the target. The lack of a surface frequency effect for the target noun itself departs from the corresponding eyetracking experiment, which revealed an effect both for the target itself as well as for the subsequent word. The reason for a pure lagged effect may lie in the nature of the experimental task, which has been shown to entail a tendency to reect online processing with some time lag (see e.g., Magliano, Graesser, Eymard, Haberlandt, & Gholson, 1993). In other words, readers tend to press a button to advance to the next word before they have fully processed the word. GENERAL DISCUSSION The present study revealed an effect of base frequency on identifying inected nouns with an ambiguous ending; the effect was manifested only as a lagged effect showing up in reading the word following the target word. Moreover, an effect of surface frequency was established, but the two measures diverged with respect to the timing of the effect: eyetracking showed an immediate effect accompanied by a spill-over effect, while the

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self-paced reading method established the effect only as a lagged effect. The results converge with the lexical decision study of Bertram et al. (2000a) in Žnding a surface frequency effect, but they diverge from the lexical decision study by also demonstrating a base frequency effect. The pattern of results suggests that the full form of the type of inectional nouns studied becomes quickly available, and that later in processing the word becomes available as a morphologically decomposed form. This pattern is not in line with earlier studies on Finnish (Bertram et al., 1999; Hyo¨na¨ et al., 1995; Laine & Koivisto, 1998; Laine et al., 1999; Niemi et al., 1994). These studies suggest that inected nouns (with the exception of very high frequent forms) have not developed full-form representations and that they are identiŽed by a decomposition route only. Bertram et al. (2000a) suggest that the reliance on full forms during recognition lies in the nature of the sufŽx type. As noted above, the -jA sufŽx is homonymic in the sense that it serves two separate linguistic functions: it is used to mark the partitive plural case often required for sentence objects, but it is also used as a deverbal subject noun marker to form agentives out of verbal stems (tutkija = researcher). In order to avoid processing delay due to competition between the two semantic/syntactic functions, these inectional forms are assumed to develop full-form representations and to be recognised via them. We hypothesised in the Introduction that the context primes the inectional function of the -jA sufŽx and that therefore the decomposition process could be speeded up. This implies that parallel processing of the complex words takes place, as is suggested in parallel processing models like that of Schreuder and Baayen (1995). The returned base frequency effect suggests that this assumption is indeed grounded. In the following we will argue that the effect can be explained in relation to grammatical priming (see Gurjanov, Lukatela, Moskovljevic, Savic, & Turvey, 1985; Hyo¨na¨ & Hujanen, 1997; Hyo¨na¨ & Lindeman, 1994; Schriefers, Friederici & Rose, 1998; Tyler & Marslen-Wilson, 1986). As mentioned earlier, the syntactic role of the target word was highly predictable from the previous context, which also constrained the particular inectional forms, in which the target word could appear in the sentence. Our context did not constrain the target word to a single inectional form as was the case in the strong syntactic context condition of the Tyler and Marslen-Wilson study (1986). However, on the basis of the context the inectional reading of the sufŽx -jA is much more likely than the derivational reading. Consequently, the presumed computational confusion emerging when words with -jA are presented in isolation, will be reduced when these words are presented in a context with syntactic cues as was the case in this study. In other words, the partitive plural is among the cases that receives activation before the target words are actually

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encountered. Upon Žxating the words with the -jA sufŽx, the function of partitive plural has a head-start in comparison to the subject noun marker, and will be selected much quicker than was the case when the words were presented in isolation. This will lead to a faster decomposition process and the reinstatement of the base as an effective unit in processing nouns with the partitive plural marker -jA. Thus we suggest that the base frequency effect observed here is due to contextual syntactic cues which prime the inectional reading of the -jA sufŽx. One may argue that the disambiguation of the sufŽx could instead appear on the word level. In other words, accessing the word class of the stem will provide a pointer as to which function of the sufŽx has to be selected. However, one would have to assume a strict left-to-right processing procedure in which the stem is accessed before the sufŽx. This might be a likely option for auditory perception, where the stem is acoustically presented before the sufŽx. However, as Chialant and Caramazza (1995) and Baayen et al. (1997) suggest, in visual perception more than one meaningful unit is processed simultaneously and it might well be that the sufŽx is dealt with much faster than the stem. Most importantly, if the stem would have indeed fulŽlled a disambiguation role, we should have found a base frequency effect in visual lexical decision as well. The Žnding that the base frequency effect shows up later and is weaker than the surface frequency effect may have to do with our target nouns being fairly short, on average about 7 characters in length. When making an eye Žxation on such short words, the whole word form falls onto the foveal region of the eye, and thus it is readily available for the visual system. Niswander et al. (this issue) reported that the base morpheme appeared to be more signiŽcant for longer derived words (7–12 characters) than for shorter inected words (5–9 characters). They suggest that for the longer derived words the letters of the sufŽx may not have been fully legible during the initial Žxation, and as a result the base had a ‘‘head start’’ over the whole word form. On the other hand, all the letters in the shorter inected words may have been fully legible during the initial Žxation so that the early recognition of the full form was rendered possible. All in all, we think that in future studies word length should be considered as a potential factor in modulating morphological effects. With respect to the lagged effect of base frequency, another possibility is that the effect reects the special nature of the words following the target and not the processing of the target itself. A high percentage (70%) of these words were relative pronouns referring back to the stem of the target word (the relative pronoun carried a different case sufŽx than the target noun). Thus, in order to process the anaphoric reference, the stem of the

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target word needs to be accessed, the process taking longer for low than high frequency stems; hence the base frequency effect for the word following the target. However, the fact that also the surface frequency manipulation showed an effect on the subsequent word (85% of them were relative pronouns) is problematic for this argument. In the surface frequency experiments, base frequency was matched, so accessing the referent should take comparable amount of time; yet this turned out not to be the case. Moreover, if anything, the lagged base frequency effect was more pronounced for the few non-pronouns, which is also against the view that the lagged effects would be due to referent assignment. Thus, we conclude that the lagged effect indeed reects the base frequency manipulation of the target nouns. The argument that a set of inected nouns is recognised via their full form might not sound particularly convincing for a language like Finnish with its rich morphology. A sceptic may argue that due to the excessive number of words containing the -jA sufŽx it is unlikely that all -jA sufŽxed words would possess a full form representation in the mental lexicon. However, it may appear more plausible to assume a full form representation only for the more frequent stem+ sufŽx combinations (see Alegre & Gordon, 1999; Laine et al., 1995). Following this line of reasoning, one might argue that our high-surface frequency words were accessed via their full form representations and the low-surface frequency words via their morpheme-based representations. By further making an assumption that the decomposition route is slower than the full form route, one is in the position to account for the difference between low and high surface frequency words. The assumption that the decomposition route may be in operation is in line with the observed base frequency effect as well as with earlier research conducted in Finnish. Finally, we want to take up the issue of deriving a meaning for inected forms. So far we have only discussed the issue as a recognition process. Ultimately, what the reader cares about is deriving the meaning for lexical items in order to grasp the message inherent in a linguistic expression. Whether this implies a process of meaning computation of inected noun forms on the basis of the morphological constituents is an open question. It is feasible to assume that full form representations automatically activate their corresponding meaning without a deliberate computation. Even when the inected form is accessed via the decomposition route, its meaning may be accessed without computation as a combined activation of the constituent morphemes. However, when inected forms are presented in isolation, their meaning may remain unspeciŽed and incomplete. Consider for example the genitive form auton (= car’s). When forms like this are presented without any linguistic context, response may be delayed due to a lack of context, which would

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anchor the meaning of the form to something more meaningful (e.g., auton omistaja = car’s owner). Thus, a delayed response may not necessarily be due to lexical access being slowed down, but due to lack of a Žtting context. Indeed, Hyo¨na¨ et al. (2000) demonstrated that the repeatedly observed effect of longer lexical decision times for isolated inected than non-inected nouns was wiped out when they provided a context, where both the inected and non-inected form was equally acceptable and predictable. We think that the issue of context should be taken seriously and morphological processing should be preferably studied in sentence context. This applies particularly to inected forms that seldom appear in isolation. Moreover, if one follows Taft (1994) in assuming that inections are not represented at the lexical level, but are processed in a separate syntactic module, it may be even more important to study their processing in a proper syntactic context.

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APPENDIX Materials used in Experiment 1 and 2. Each Finnish sentence is followed by an English translation. The target words are in italics Sentences used in Experiment 1a and 1b: A-sentences contain a target word with low base frequency, B-sentences contain a target word with high base frequency 1A. 1B. 2A. 2B. 3A. 3B. 4A. 4B. 5A. 5B. 6A. 6B. 7A. 7B. 8A. 8B.

Mies korjasi vaunuja koko illan. The man repaired carts for the whole evening. Mies korjasi lukkoja koko illan. The man repaired locks for the whole evening. Myyja¨ asetteli lappuja paremmin esille. The seller set up labels so that they would be better visible. Myyja¨ asetteli hattuja paremmin esille. The seller set up hats so that they would be better visible. Talossa kierta¨a¨ haamuja, jotka pelottavat pois herkka¨hermoiset. In the house there circulates ghosts which scare away faint-hearted people. Talossa kierta¨a¨ huhuja, jotka liittyva¨t tyo¨ntekijo¨iden irtisanomisiin. In the house there circulates rumors that are related to notices given to employees. Valikoimasta lo¨ytyy rehuja, joiden valkuaisainepitoisuus ei ta¨yta¨ EU-standardeja. The assortment includes animal feedstuffs the protein content of which does not fulŽll EU standards. Valikoimasta lo¨ytyy laatuja, jotka kiinnostavat seka¨ nuoria etta¨ vanhoja. The assortment includes choices which are of interest both to young and old. Kaulassa nainen ka¨ytti koruja, jotka olivat silmiinpista¨va¨n suuret. On her neck the lady carried ornaments which were exceptionally large. Kaulassa nainen ka¨ytti ketjuja, jotka na¨yttiva¨t vanhanaikaisilta. On her neck the lady carried necklaces which looked old-fashioned. Tien varrella oli kojuja, joissa myytiin kaikenlaista rihkamaa. By the side of the road there were booths where all sorts of frippery was being sold. Tien varrella oli latuja, joita pitkin lapset hiihtiva¨t kouluun. By the side of the road there were tracks by which children skied to the school. Asusteessa oli kuituja, joiden tiedettiin olevan allergisoivia. The clothing had Žbers which were known to be allergenic. Asusteessa oli taskuja, jotka eiva¨t na¨kyneet ulospa¨in. The clothing had pockets which were not visible from the outside. Saatoin na¨hda¨ polkuja, joiden la¨hella¨ oli paljon marjastajia. I could see paths close to which there were a lot of berry pickers. Saatoin na¨hda¨ hylkyja¨, joiden nostaminen voisi ilmeisesti olla helppoa. I could see wrecks which would apparently be easy to lift up.

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Meita¨ vastaan tuli norsuja, jotka kantoivat sela¨ssa¨a¨n raskaita taakkoja. We encountered elephants which carried heavy loads on their back. Meita¨ vastaan tuli seutuja, jotka olivat uskomattoman kauniita. We encountered regions which were unbelievably beautiful. Puserossa on pilkkuja ja erilaisia rengaskuvioita. The blouse has dots and various circular Žgures. Puserossa on ruutuja ja mustavalkoisia salmiakkikuvioita. The blouse has squares and black-and-white diamonds. Keittio¨ssa¨ valmistettiin puuroja Žrman kokkien maisteltaviksi. In the kitchen one prepared porridges for the tasting of company’s chefs. Keittio¨ssa¨ valmistettiin kinkkuja Žrman pikkujoulujuhlia varten. In the kitchen one prepared hams for the company’s Christmas staff party. Na¨in pihalla ratsuja, jotka na¨yttiva¨t kovin uupuneilta. At the yard I saw horses which looked quite exhausted. Na¨in pihalla kiuruja, jotka pyra¨htiva¨t minut na¨hdessa¨a¨n samantien lentoon. At the yard I saw larks which ied away at the moment they saw me. Pida¨n ka¨dessa¨ni tilkkuja, joilla oli tarkoitus paikata vanhat farkkuni. In my hand I have patches with which I am going to mend my old jeans. Pida¨n ka¨dessa¨ni kruunuja, joiden pita¨isi riitta¨a¨ koko Ruotsin matkan ajan. In my hand I have (Swedish) crowns which should last for the whole trip to Sweden. Kun poimin ylo¨s tossuja, na¨in samassa lattialle pudonneen 500 mk:n setelin. When I picked up sneakers, I immediately saw the 500 mark note that had dropped on the oor. Kun poimin ylo¨s kurkkuja, na¨in kauppiaan tulevan minua auttamaan. When I picked up cucumbers, I saw the seller coming to help me. Sanomalehti-ilmoituksen mukaan tyynyja¨ annetaan ilmaiseksi Ikeassa, kun ostaa sohvakaluston. According to the newspaper announcement, one gives away pillows for free at the Ikea department store if one buys a couch set. Sanomalehti-ilmoituksen mukaan pentuja annetaan ilmaiseksi hyva¨a¨n kotiin. According to the newspaper announcement, one gives away puppies to a good home. Unessani na¨in tonttuja, jotka kurkkivat puiden takaa. In my dream I saw goblins which peeked behind trees. Unessani na¨in sa¨nkyja¨, jotka putosivat kovaa vauhtia alaspa¨in. In my dream I saw beds which were falling down fast. Varastossa meilla¨ on happoja, jotka ovat eritta¨in syo¨vytta¨via¨. In the store we have acids which are extremely corrosive. Varastossa meilla¨ on kimppuja, jotka sopivat hyvin ylioppilaalle. In the store we have ower bunches that suit very well for a high-school graduate. Maanviljelija¨lla¨ on ketoja, jotka ovat aivan liian laajoja, jotta ne voisi na¨hda¨ yhdella¨ silma¨yksella¨. The farmer has meadows which are way too large to be seen by a glance. Maanviljelija¨lla¨ on riemuja, jotka eiva¨t ole kaupunkilaisen ymma¨rretta¨vissa¨. The farmer has delights which an urban dweller does not understand. Keikkamuusikolla on urkuja, jotka tarvitsevat korjausta. The tour musician has organs which need repair. Keikkamuusikolla on suruja, jotka ovat seurausta a¨sketta¨isesta¨ avioerosta. The tour musician has sorrows due to a recent divorce. Joen varrella oli myllyja¨, jotka olivat pahasti rappeutumassa. Along the river there were mills which were becoming dilapidated.

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20B. Joen varrella oli nippuja, jotka odottivat uiton alkamista. Along the river there were bundles of logs waiting for the timber oating to begin. Sentences used in Experiment 2a and 2b: A-sentences contain a target word with low surface frequency, B-sentences contain a target word with high surface frequency.

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Opettaja haki varastosta huiluja, joilla oppilaat voisivat harjoitella. The teacher picked utes from the storage-room, with which the pupils could practice. 1B. Opettaja haki varastosta vaunuja, joilla penkit voitaisiin siirta¨a¨ pois. The teacher picked carts from the storage-room, with which the benches could be moved away. 2A. Myyja¨ siirsi pois maitoja, jotka olivat vanhentuneet. The seller removed milk cans which were out of date. 2B. Myyja¨ siirsi pois nukkeja, jotka eiva¨t olleet menneet kaupaksi. The seller removed dolls which had not been purchased. 3A. Kirjassa kuvattiin ukkoja, jotka vaalivat vanhoja ka¨sityo¨taitoja. In the book one described old men who kept alive ancient handicraft skills. 3B. Kirjassa kuvattiin rotuja, jotka sopivat erityisen hyvin pieniin kerrostaloasuntoihin. In the book one described breeds which suited particularly well for small apartment houses. 4A. Valikoimasta lo¨ytyy laatuja, jotka kiinnostavat seka¨ nuoria etta¨ vanhoja. The assortment includes choices which are of interest both to young and old. 4B. Valikoimasta lo¨ytyy lamppuja, jotka sopivat myo¨s rokokoo-kalustukseen. The assortment includes lamps which Žt also to a rococo-style furniture. 5A. Kaulassa nainen ka¨ytti ketjuja, jotka na¨yttiva¨t vanhanaikaisilta. On her neck the lady carried necklaces which looked old-fashioned. 5B. Kaulassa nainen ka¨ytti koruja, jotka olivat silmiinpista¨va¨n suuret. On her neck the lady carried ornaments which were exceptionally large. 6A. Tien varrella oli kuiluja, joita ohikulkijat pysa¨htyiva¨t kiinnostuneina katsomaan. By the side of the road there were clefts by which interested bypassers stopped to have a look. 6B. Tien varrella oli latuja, joita pitkin lapset hiihtiva¨t kouluun. By the side of the road there were tracks by which children skied to the school. 7A. Padossa on sulkuja, joiden avulla veden virtausta voidaan sa¨a¨della¨. The dam has ood-gates by which one can control the ow of water. 7B. Padossa on aukkoja, jotka on paikattava ensitilassa. The dam has holes which must be repaired as soon as possible. 8A. Saatoin na¨hda¨ luotoja, joiden kauneus todella ha¨ika¨isi. I could see rocky islets, the beauty of which was really overwhelming. 8B. Saatoin na¨hda¨ polkuja, joiden la¨hella¨ oli paljon marjastajia. I could see paths close to which there were a lot of berry pickers. 9A. Kohtasimme seutuja, jotka olivat uskomattoman kauniita. We encountered regions which were unbelievably beautiful. 9B. Kohtasimme tabuja, jotka olivat meille ennesta¨a¨n ta¨ysin tuntemattomia. We encountered taboos which were previously unknown to us. 10A. Puserossa on ruutuja ja mustavalkoisia salmiakkikuvioita. The blouse has squares and black-and-white diamonds. 10B. Puserossa on pilkkuja ja erilaisia rengaskuvioita. The blouse has dots and has various circular Žgures. 11A. Keittio¨ssa¨ valmistettiin kinkkuja Žrman pikkujoulujuhlia varten. In the kitchen one prepared hams for the company’s Christmas staff party.

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11B. Keittio¨ssa¨ valmistettiin herkkuja Žrman kokkien maisteltaviksi. In the kitchen one prepared delicacies for the tasting of company’s chefs. 12A. Na¨in pihalla ratsuja, jotka na¨yttiva¨t kovin uupuneilta. At the yard I saw horses which looked quite exhausted. 12B. Na¨in pihalla poroja, jotka kaapivat lumen alta ja¨ka¨la¨a¨. At the yard I saw reindeers which sought for lichen under the snow. 13A. Pankkivirkailija ka¨vi la¨pi saldoja, jotka eiva¨t ta¨sma¨nneet kirjanpidon kanssa. The bank clerk went through balances which did not Žt with the book-keeping. 13B. Pankkivirkailija ka¨vi la¨pi menoja, jotka saattoivat mahdollisesti olla tekaistuja. The bank clerk went through expenses which could possibly be fabricated. 14A. Elokuva sai aikaan nauruja, jotka eiva¨t tuntuneet lainkaan loppuvan. The movie elicited laughter that seemed to go on forever. 14B. Elokuva sai aikaan tuntoja, jotka ja¨iva¨t mieleen pitka¨ksi aikaa. The movie elicited feelings that stayed in mind for a long time. 15A. Sanomalehti-ilmoituksen mukaan tyynyja¨ annetaan ilmaiseksi Ikeassa, kun ostaa sohvakaluston. According to the newspaper announcement, one gives away pillows for free at the Ikea department store if one buys a couch set. 15B. Sanomalehti-ilmoituksen mukaan pentuja annetaan ilmaiseksi hyva¨a¨n kotiin. According to the newspaper announcement, one gives away puppies to a good home. 16A. Unessani na¨in arkkuja, jotka na¨yttiva¨t hyvin pelottavilta. In my dream I saw cofŽns which looked very frightening. 16B. Unessani na¨in tonttuja, jotka kurkkivat puiden takaa. In my dream I saw goblins which peeked behind trees. 17A. Varastossa meilla¨ on happoja, jotka ovat eritta¨in syo¨vytta¨via¨. In the store we have acids which are extremely corrosive. 17B. Varastossa meilla¨ on rumpuja, jotka olisi mahdollista myyda¨ edulliseen hintaan. In the store we have drums which one could sell for a good price. 18A. Tien vasemmalla puolella avautui ketoja, jotka ovat aivan liian laajoja, jotta ne voisi na¨hda¨ yhdella¨ silma¨yksella¨. At the left side of the road there were meadows which were way too large to be seen by a glance. 18B. Tien vasemmalla puolella avautui niittyja¨, jotka ovat olleet jo pitka¨a¨n kesannolla. At the left side of the road there were Želds which had lain fallow already for a long time. 19A. Luonnonsuojelijat pera¨a¨nkuuluttivat rehuja, jotka olisivat fosforipitoisuudeltaan mahdollisimman alhaisia. The nature activists called for animal feedstuffs which would have as low a content of phosphorus as possible. 19B. Luonnonsuojelijat pera¨a¨nkuuluttivat taitoja, jotka mahdollistaisivat puurakentamisen suosion kasvun. The nature activists called for skills which would enable the increase of popularity in wood construction. 20A. Hakkarainen na¨ytti taskuja, joihin mahtui tosi paljon tavaraa. Mr. Hakkarainen showed pockets that could Žt lots of stuff. 20B. Hakkarainen na¨ytti heittoja, joilla pita¨isi pa¨a¨sta¨ EM -kisojen Žnaaliin. Mr. Hakkarainen showed throws with which one should be able to get into the European championship Žnals.