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← Language & CommunicationA speaker's lexicon lacks productive morphological rules; which consequence follows regarding unfamiliar words?
A)Reduced anomia during object naming
B)Impaired ability to parse novel words✓
C)Enhanced recognition of foreign accents
D)Increased verbal fluency in conversations
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If a speaker's lexicon does not contain productive morphological rules, the decompositional parsing mechanism will be impaired, therefore the ability to break down and understand novel words is reduced rather than improved; other processes handle accent recognition and fluency.
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