“…On the other hand, the equivalent magnitudes of priming in the truly suffixed and pseudo-suffixed conditions are in line with a considerable number of studies suggesting that there must be an automatic, fast-acting morpho-orthographic segmentation mechanism that rapidly decomposes morphologically complex letter strings into morphemic units, independently from semantics (Beyersmann, Castles, & Coltheart, 2011;Diependaele et al, 2005Diependaele et al, , 2009Duñabeitia, Perea, & Carreiras, 2007;Rastle & Davis, 2008;Rastle et al, 2004;Taft, 2003;Taft & Ardasinski, 2006;Taft & Nguyen-Hoan, 2010). It has been proposed that morpho-orthographic segmentation is guided by some kind of 'affix-stripping' mechanism (firstly introduced by Taft & Forster, 1975), that matches input letter sequences with higher-level affix representations, while the remaining letter string activates the representation of the stem.…”