Affiliation:
1. University of Tartu
2. University of Groningen
3. Radboud University
4. University of Alberta
Abstract
Abstract
In recent years, evidence has emerged that readers may have access to the meaning of complex words even in the
early stages of processing, suggesting that phenomena previously attributed to morphological decomposition may actually emerge
from an interplay between formal and semantic effects. The present study adds to this line of work by deploying a forward masked
priming experiment with both L1 (Experiment 1) and L2 (Experiment 2) speakers of English. Following recent research trends, we
view morphological processing as a gradient process emerging over time. In order to model this, we used a large within-item
stimulus design combined with advanced statistical methods such as generalised mixed models (GAMM) and quantile regression (QGAM).
L1 GAMM analyses only showed priming for true morpho-semantic relations (the identity ‘bull’, inflected ‘bulls’ and derived
conditions ‘bullish’), with no priming observed in the case of other relations (the pseudo-complex ‘bully’ or the stem-embedded
‘bullet’ conditions). Furthermore, with respect to the time-course of effects, we found significant differences between conditions
were present from very early on as revealed by the QGAM analyses. In contrast, L2 speakers showed significant facilitation across
all five conditions compared to the baseline condition, including the stem-embedded condition, suggesting early L2 processing is
only dependant on the form.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Cognitive Neuroscience,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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