The contribution of morphology to word recognition |
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Authors: | Laurie Beth Feldman |
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Institution: | (1) State University of New York at Albany, 12222, NY, USA;(2) Haskins Laboratories, 270 Crown Street, 06511-6695 New Haven, CT, USA |
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Abstract: | Summary Evidence of morphological processing was investigated in three word recognition tasks. In the first study, phonological ambiguity of the base morpheme in morphologically complex words of Serbo-Croatian was exploited in order to evaluate the claim that the base morpheme serves as the unit by which entries in the lexicon are accessed. An interaction of base morpheme ambiguity and affix characteristics was obtained and this outcome was interpreted as evidence that all morphological constituents of a word participate in lexical access. In the second study, facilitation due to morphological relatedness of prime and target was observed with Serbo-Croatian materials in the lexical decision and naming versions of the repetition priming task and results were interpreted as evidence of a morphological principle of organization among wholeword forms in the lexicon. In the third study, morphological affixes of both English and Serbo-Croatian words were segmented from a source word and affixed to a target word more rapidly than phonemically matched controls. Results suggest that the morphological constituents of complex words are available in some word recognition tasks and that morphological knowledge is represented in the speaker's lexicon. |
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