Lexical decision times were measured for three grammatical cases of inflected Serbo-Croatian nouns. The grammatical cases occur with different frequencies. Decision times were not related by a unique constant multiplier to the logarithms of the respective case frequencies. The result suggests that a principle of organization in addition to frequency of occurrence is involved in the lexical memory of inflected nouns.
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