Derivational morphology and base morpheme frequency

Ford, Michael A.; Davis, Matthew H.; Marslen–Wilson, William D.

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2009.01.003

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“…We suggest that in the case of a clear semantic context it is easier to generate a competitive process because there are stronger connections between possible competitors. Note that this explanation is fully congruent with the results of Ford et al (2010) suggesting the independence of the Stem-FS and Affix-FS due to the former being semantic in nature but not the latter.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…However, when they carried out an analysis without counting the opaque members of the morphological family, the FS effect appeared for all morphemes. Ford et al (2010), on the other hand, observed that FS of stems and FS of affixes are independent variables in English. They carried out a multiple regression analysis and observed that both variables were good predictors of response latencies obtained in a lexical decision task, but there was no interaction between them.…”

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The Effect of Family Size on Spanish Simple and Complex Words

Lázaro

Sáinz

2011

J Psycholinguist Res

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This study presents the results of three experiments in which the Family Size (FS) effect is explored. The first experiment is carried out with no prime on simple words. The second and third experiments are carried out with morphological priming on complex words. In the first experiment a facilitatory effect of FS is observed: high FS targets produced faster responses than low FS targets. However, an inhibitory effect of Stem-FS is observed in the second experiment: low Stem-FS targets produced faster responses than high Stem-FS targets. In the third experiment a facilitatory effect is observed when the Affix-FS is manipulated: high Affix-FS targets produced faster responses than low Affix-FS targets. Overall data confirms that the effect of FS plays an important role in lexical access in Spanish. The results also show that the effect of FS is modulated by the lexical nature of the prime (lexical or sublexical) and by the number of candidates activated. Finally, it is suggested that the nonwords employed were decisive in obtaining the results mentioned.

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The Effect of Family Size on Spanish Simple and Complex Words

Lázaro

Sáinz

2011

J Psycholinguist Res

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“…The idea that phonotactics should be related in this way to morphological decomposability has been noted before (Burzio, ) and is in line with findings showing that processing is easier when the various properties of a complex word agree in their effects on parsability (Burani & Thornton, ; Ford, Davis, & Marslen‐Wilson, ; Hay, ; Kuperman, Bertram, & Baayen, ; Kuperman et al., ; Lázaro, ; Milin et al., ; Moscoso del Prado Martín et al., ; Taft, ). Moreover, this tendency has been argued to drive patterns in morphology, phonology, and even orthography, including affix ordering (Hay, ; Hay & Plag, ; Plag & Baayen, ; Zirkel, ; as well as other contributions in the same special issue), stress in Spanish compound words (Rao, ), allomorphy in Russian genitives (Pertsova, ), optional phonological processes in Tagalog (Zuraw, , ), and the spelling of English compounds and derivations (Berg, ; Kuperman & Bertram, ).…”

Section: Spanish Alternating Stems With Derivational Suffixessupporting

confidence: 79%

You Saydientito, I Saydentito: Navigating Complex Word Formation in Second Language Spanish

Carlson

Gerfen

2017

Language Learning

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Native speakers seamlessly marshal morphological resources to create new words, displaying striking consistency even where multiple options are available, as when a stem contains a phonological alternation. This is true even when these options appear to be idiosyncratically applied in existing words. For example, in derived words, the alternation of diphthongs and monophthongs in certain Spanish stems defies traditional morphophonological analysis, but native speakers nonetheless agree on when to use one and when to use the other in novel derivations. Here we ask how second language learners of Spanish cope with this subtlety. Recently, native speakers’ agreement has been attributed to the way phonotactic and morpholexical properties influence morphological processing. In a lexical decision experiment, we show that while the polarity of learners’ responses differed from earlier native speaker results, their response latencies exhibit striking sensitivity to the very same ingredients shown to predict nativelike behavior. Open Practices This article has been awarded an Open Materials badge. All materials are publicly accessible in the IRIS digital repository at http://www.iris-database.org. Learn more about the Open Practices badges from the Center for Open Science: https://osf.io/tvyxz/wiki.

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“…This sug gests that family size and base frequency are independent predic tors of RTs (Ford et al, 2010). Given that the family size was composed of the number of transparent morphological relatives, family size did not interact with transparency (b = -0.078, SE = 0.02, Id = .19, p > .05).…”

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confidence: 72%

“…To incorporate these effects into the AUSTRAL model, we could attribute the family size effect to the semantic level (Ford et al, 2010;Schreuder & Baayen, 1997), where the shared seman tic units for words with a large family size are more frequently accessed and provide stronger activation feedback to the lemma level.…”

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The effects of semantic transparency and base frequency on the recognition of English complex words.

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Taft²

2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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A visual lexical decision task was used to examine the interaction between base frequency (i.e., the cumulative frequencies of morphologically related forms) and semantic transparency for a list of derived words. Linear mixed effects models revealed that high base frequency facilitates the recognition of the complex word (i.e., a base frequency effect), but the magnitude of this declines with semantic transparency. These results suggest that the extent to which the constituents of a complex word contribute to its recognition is dictated by semantic transparency. The implications of these findings are discussed in the context of localist-connectionist models of morphological processing.

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Derivational morphology and base morpheme frequency

Cited by 64 publications

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The Effect of Family Size on Spanish Simple and Complex Words

The Effect of Family Size on Spanish Simple and Complex Words

You Saydientito, I Saydentito: Navigating Complex Word Formation in Second Language Spanish

The effects of semantic transparency and base frequency on the recognition of English complex words.

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