The Mental Representation of Semitic Words

By Jean-Franois Prunet, R. Bland, Ali Idrissi. Linguistic Inquiry, 2000

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Productivity and priming: Morphemic decomposition in Arabic (2011, unknown): “This apparent salience and independence of the root is buttressed by neuropsychological data showing selective impairment of production processes involving root consonants (Berg & Abd-Al-Jawad, 1996 ; Prunet, Beland, & Idrissi, 2000 ).”
Roots, stems, and the universality of lexical representations: evidence from Hebrew. (2007, background): “For example ZT, a bilingual aphasic patient, showed far greater metathesis errors (e.g., naxl ‘palm-trees’ fi xanl) in Arabic than in French (Prunet et al., 2000).”
The Blackwell Companion to Phonology (2011, background): “…examples of non-contiguous consonant metatheses are found in language games in Bedouin Hijazi and Moroccan Arabic, in which the root consonants are scrambled (Prunet et al. 2000: 623f.); in Hijazi, /kattab/ ‘caused to write’ can be realized as [battak], [takkab], [kabbat], [tabbak], and [bakkat].”
Locality Constraints on the Interpretation of Roots: The Case of Hebrew Denominal VERBS (2003, background): “Work in phonology (Bat El 1994; Ussishkin 1999) has denied the status of the consonantal root in Hebrew, while psycholinguistic evidence supported its existence (see Prunet et al. 2000, who discuss mainly Arabic).”