Masked Morphological Priming in German-Speaking Adults and Children: Evidence from Response Time Distributions

Hasenäcker, Jana; Beyersmann, Elisabeth; Schroeder, Sascha

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00929

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“…The results of the first two experiments cannot, therefore, be explained in terms of whole word processing of frequent targets. These results were the same as those found by Morris et al (2011), but different from those in other studies (Giraudo & Voga, 2016;Hasenäcker et al, 2016;Longtin & Meunier, 2005). Morris et al, (2011) proposed an interesting argument to explain why simple pseudowords may facilitate word recognition and therefore why their results -and our results-were different from those of Longtin and Meunier (2005).…”

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“…The lack of significance for the orthographic condition found by Longtin and Meunier (2005), however, contradicts other well-conducted studies. For example, Hasenäcker et al, (2016), mimicked the design of Longtin and Meunier (2005) in a sample of German adults and obtained contrasting results. These authors presented complex pseudowords (kleidtum -> kleid), complex words (kleidchen-> kleid) and simple pseudowords (kleidekt-> kleid) as primes, as well as unrelated controls (träumerei -> kleid), finding facilitation for simple pseudoword primes compared to controls, although this effect was significantly lower than in the case of complex stimuli.…”

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“…From our perspective, the WEF can be considered a confounding variable with an unknown influence in previous research. Longting & Meunier (2005) Orthographic endings appearing in at least five existing French words Morris et al, (2010) In both experiments "Suffixes and nonsuffixes differed in type frequency and productivity, but did not differ in token frequency" -despite enormous differences (831,19 vs.46,385 in the first and 66,823 vs. 37,089 in the second experiment) Hasenäcker et al, (2016) Suffixes were of high normalized type frequency (M = 1281) and low normalized type frequency (M = 173). Likewise, non-morphemic endings were of high type frequency (M = 599) and low type frequency (M = 141) Beyersman et al, (2014) The mean word final position frequency for low-frequency suffixes was 109.8 and was 153.8 for high-frequency suffixes.…”

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Priming effects in the recognition of simple and complex words and pseudowords

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Whether morphological processing of complex words occurs beyond orthographic processing is a matter of intense debate. In this study, morphological processing is examined by presenting complex words (brujería -> brujo –witchcraft -> witch), as well as simple (brujaña->brujo) and complex pseudowords (brujanza ->brujo), as primes in three masked lexical decision tasks. In the first experiment, the three experimental conditions facilitated word recognition in comparison to the control condition, but no differences emerged between them. Given the importance of the surface frequency effect observed, a second experiment was conducted. The results fully replicate those observed in the first one, but this time with low frequency targets. In the third experiment, vowels were removed from the stems of primes to reduce the orthographic overlap between primes and targets and, therefore, the influence of the embedded stem effect. The results show facilitative effects only for complex words. However, paired comparisons show no differences between experimental conditions. The overall results show the central role played by the processing of stems in visual word recognition and are explained in terms of current models of morphological processing.

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“…The vast majority of these studies have investigated English, for which morphological decomposition of derived words has been shown to work efficiently not only in adult L1 speakers (e.g., Rastle et al, 2004), but also in L2 speakers (e.g., Silva & Clahsen, 2008) and in children (e.g., Beyersmann, Castles, & Coltheart, 2012). Similarly, German derived words were shown to yield robust morphological priming effects in both L1 and L2 adults and in German children (Hasenäcker, Beyersmann, & Schroeder, 2016). In French, Quémart, Casalis, and Colé (2011) reported significant masked priming effects with derived words in adults and children.…”

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Variability and Consistency in First and Second Language Processing: A Masked Morphological Priming Study on Prefixation and Suffixation

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Word forms such as walked or walker are decomposed into their morphological constituents (walk + –ed/–er) during language comprehension. Yet, the efficiency of morphological decomposition seems to vary for different languages and morphological types, as well as for first and second language speakers. The current study reports results from a visual masked priming experiment focusing on different types of derived word forms (specifically prefixed vs. suffixed) in first and second language speakers of German. We compared the present findings with results from previous studies on inflection and compounding and proposed an account of morphological decomposition that captures both the variability and the consistency of morphological decomposition for different morphological types and for first and second language speakers. Open Practices This article has been awarded an Open Materials badge. Study materials are publicly accessible via the Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/vja85. Learn more about the Open Practices badges from the Center for Open Science: https://osf.io/tvyxz/wiki.

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“…It is conceivable that the variation within the experiment or specific properties of the overlapping material in the language (cf. Hasenäcker, Beyersmann, & Schroeder, 2016)…”

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Effects of Overlap Between Consecutive Words on Speeded Typing Inform About Representation of Serial Order Within Words

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Typing is an everyday activity that requires people to use the correct serial order of phonological and orthographic forms of words. The evidence until now shows that different forms of representation of serial order have mixed contributions to typing performance. It is not clear whether and how representational overlap between subsequent words impacts the speed of typing. In three experiments, we used speeded typing of six-letter words. Including conditions with secondary task load to counteract potential ceiling effects, we varied whether subsequent words had partial overlap with respect to a chaining representation (e.g., kirsch → schaum; same triplet in different position) or, in addition, overlapped with respect to a potential positional representation (e.g., berlin → dublin, same triplet in the same position). Differently from previous findings (e.g., Snyder & Logan, 2014), Experiments 1 and 2 suggest that (a) chaining as well as positional coding are involved as representations of serial order and (b) partial overlap of representation of serial order leads to costs in typing speed. Experiment 3 demonstrated that full overlap speeds up typing. Across all experiments, the overlap effects were most revealed in the latency of the first keystroke, indicating the planning of motor programs. Taken together, the results suggest that even in highly practiced tasks such as typing, the activation of representations of serial order has side effects beyond the production of the current sequence.

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Masked Morphological Priming in German-Speaking Adults and Children: Evidence from Response Time Distributions

Cited by 54 publications

References 42 publications

Priming effects in the recognition of simple and complex words and pseudowords

Priming effects in the recognition of simple and complex words and pseudowords

Variability and Consistency in First and Second Language Processing: A Masked Morphological Priming Study on Prefixation and Suffixation

Effects of Overlap Between Consecutive Words on Speeded Typing Inform About Representation of Serial Order Within Words

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