Fast morphological effects in first and second language word recognition  

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Diependaele, Kevin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Memory and Language (Full Text) vol. 64 no. 4 (2011), page 344–358.
Topik: Morphological processing Bilingual word recognition Masked priming Semantic transparency
Fulltext: Diependaele_Kevin.pdf (333.89KB)

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In three experiments we compared the performance of native English speakers to that of Spanish–English and Dutch–English bilinguals on a masked morphological priming lexical decision task. The results do not show significant differences across the three experiments. In line with recent meta-analyses, we observed a graded pattern of facilitation across stem priming with transparent suffixed primes (e.g., viewer–view), opaque suffixed or pseudosuffixed primes (e.g., corner–corn) and form control primes (e.g., freeze–free). Priming was largest in the transparent condition, smallest in the form condition and intermediate in the opaque condition. Our data confirm the hypothesis that bilinguals largely adopt the same processing strategies as native speakers (e.g., Lemhöfer et al., 2008), and constrain the hypothesis that bilinguals rely more heavily on whole-word processing in their second language (Clahsen, Felser, Neubauer, Sato, & Silva, 2010; Ullman, 2004, 2005). The observed pattern of morphological priming is in line with earlier monolingual studies, further highlighting the reality of semantic transparency effects in the initial stages of word recognition.

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