Du traitement de la morphologie à l’apprentissage du lexique L2: innover dans une perspective psycholinguistique paradigmatique

In traditional teaching approaches, the use of paradigm is quite common for the inflectional domain, for verbs as well as for nouns. The actual psycholinguistic research shows that this type of clustering is extended to derived words : L2 learners use morphological criteria to structure their knowledge of morphologically complex words and are sensitive to an organisation based upon clustering of lexical items in families and series, as demonstrate the data reported here, particularly those issued from L2 masked derivational priming. These data have didactic implications overhauling the psychological reality of the paradigm. This view of the L2 lexicon has nevertheless recently been put into question by a novel approach, claiming qualitative differences between L1 and L2 speakers : its novelty contribution will be discussed here, with respect to the fact that it is based upon controversial data as well as on a methodology not always sound.