The Contribution of Frequency and Semantic Similarity to Morphological Processing  

Oleh:

Raveh, Michal

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 81 no. 1-3 (2002), page 312-325.
Topik: morphological priming; inflections; derivations; frequency; semantic priming; connectionist model
Fulltext: 81_01-03_Raveh.pdf (72.75KB)

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This research investigated the role of frequency and semantic factors in the processing of morphologically complex words. Unaffixed targets were immediately preceded by either inflected or derived primes that were either high or low in frequency. In Experiment 1, lowfrequency inflections and derivations produced equivalent priming effects, whereas highfrequency inflections produced more priming than derivations. In Experiment 2, both semantic and morphological priming varied as a function of SOA (50, 150, and 250 ms). The difference in priming of inflections and derivations increased as SOA increased. Results suggest that frequency and semantic similarity interactively modulate the magnitude of morphological priming and, by inference, affect the processing of morphologically complex words. Dualroute and connectionist accounts are discussed.

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