New evidence has emerged in recent years suggesting that the recognition of morphologically‑complex words starts with a rapid morphemic segmentation that is orthographically based (Rastle & Davis, 2008). This evidence appears inconsistent with evidence showing that masked priming of irregular inflections (e.g., stole‑STEAL) does not differ from masked identity priming (Forster et al., 1987) or masked priming of regular inflections (e.g., walked-WALK; Meunier et al., 2004). We carried out a masked priming experiment (SOA=42 ms) with a lexical decision task comparing the facilitation triggered by (i) irregular inflected primes (e.g., dug‑DIG), (ii) orthographically‑matched, but morphologically unrelated primes (dog‑DIG) and (iii) completely unrelated primes (pop‑DIG). Results showed that irregular inflections facilitate recognition of their stems significantly more than orthographically matched primes. These data are at odds with the existence of a pre‑lexical, orthographically‑based moprhological stage, unless very early feedback from central, semantically- and syntactically‑based stages of morphological processing is hypothesized.

Crepaldi, D., Rastle, K., Coltheart, M., Nickels, L. (2008). Irregular morphological priming and early morpho-orthographic segmentation. Intervento presentato a: Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, USA.

Irregular morphological priming and early morpho-orthographic segmentation

CREPALDI, DAVIDE;
2008

Abstract

New evidence has emerged in recent years suggesting that the recognition of morphologically‑complex words starts with a rapid morphemic segmentation that is orthographically based (Rastle & Davis, 2008). This evidence appears inconsistent with evidence showing that masked priming of irregular inflections (e.g., stole‑STEAL) does not differ from masked identity priming (Forster et al., 1987) or masked priming of regular inflections (e.g., walked-WALK; Meunier et al., 2004). We carried out a masked priming experiment (SOA=42 ms) with a lexical decision task comparing the facilitation triggered by (i) irregular inflected primes (e.g., dug‑DIG), (ii) orthographically‑matched, but morphologically unrelated primes (dog‑DIG) and (iii) completely unrelated primes (pop‑DIG). Results showed that irregular inflections facilitate recognition of their stems significantly more than orthographically matched primes. These data are at odds with the existence of a pre‑lexical, orthographically‑based moprhological stage, unless very early feedback from central, semantically- and syntactically‑based stages of morphological processing is hypothesized.
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Morphology; Printed word recognition; Irregular inflection; Masked priming; Lemma level; Morpho-orthographic segmentation
English
Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
2008
16-nov-2008
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Crepaldi, D., Rastle, K., Coltheart, M., Nickels, L. (2008). Irregular morphological priming and early morpho-orthographic segmentation. Intervento presentato a: Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, USA.
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