TY - JOUR
T1 - Early morphological decomposition of suffixed words
T2 - Masked priming evidence with transposed-letter nonword primes
AU - Beyersmann, Elisabeth
AU - Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni
AU - Carreiras, Manuel
AU - Coltheart, Max
AU - Castles, Anne
N1 - Copyright 2012 Cambridge University Press. Article originally published in Applied psycholinguistics, Vol. 34, Issue 5, pp. 869-892. The original article can be found at http://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716412000057.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Many studies have previously reported that the recognition of a stem target (e.g., teach) is facilitated by the prior masked presentation of a prime consisting of a derived form of it (e.g., teacher). We conducted two lexical decision experiments to investigate masked morphological priming in Spanish. Experiment 1 showed that equal magnitudes of masked stem-target priming are obtained for both morphologically complex word primes (e.g., doloroso-DOLOR [painful-PAIN]) and morphologically complex nonword primes that included letter transpositions within the stem (e.g., dlooroso-DOLOR). Experiment 2 used morphologically complex nonword primes comprising lexically illegal combinations of stems and suffixes (e.g., total + ito [a little total]). Priming was obtained for morphologically related nonword primes (e.g., totalito-TOTAL), but not for nonword primes that included letter transpositions within the pseudostem (e.g., ttoalito-TOTAL). Our data suggest that morphoorthographic parsing mechanisms benefit from semantic constraints at early stages in the reading system, which we discuss in the context of current morphological processing accounts.
AB - Many studies have previously reported that the recognition of a stem target (e.g., teach) is facilitated by the prior masked presentation of a prime consisting of a derived form of it (e.g., teacher). We conducted two lexical decision experiments to investigate masked morphological priming in Spanish. Experiment 1 showed that equal magnitudes of masked stem-target priming are obtained for both morphologically complex word primes (e.g., doloroso-DOLOR [painful-PAIN]) and morphologically complex nonword primes that included letter transpositions within the stem (e.g., dlooroso-DOLOR). Experiment 2 used morphologically complex nonword primes comprising lexically illegal combinations of stems and suffixes (e.g., total + ito [a little total]). Priming was obtained for morphologically related nonword primes (e.g., totalito-TOTAL), but not for nonword primes that included letter transpositions within the pseudostem (e.g., ttoalito-TOTAL). Our data suggest that morphoorthographic parsing mechanisms benefit from semantic constraints at early stages in the reading system, which we discuss in the context of current morphological processing accounts.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0142716412000057
DO - 10.1017/S0142716412000057
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84884239419
SN - 0142-7164
VL - 34
SP - 869
EP - 892
JO - Applied Psycholinguistics
JF - Applied Psycholinguistics
IS - 5
ER -