Morphological facilitation: The role of semantic transparency and family size

Feldman, Laurie Beth; Pastizzo, Matthew John

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“…For example, the meaning of allow is more transparent in the meaning of allowable than in the meaning of allowance, as another example sweaty is more close in meaning to sweat than sweater is. In recent years, the effect of semantic transparency on morphological facilitation has been a focus of interest (Feldman & Pastizzo, 2003;Feldman & Soltano, 1999;Feldman, Soltano, Pastizzo, & Francis, 2004). In a series of priming experiments Feldman et al (2004) demonstrated a transparency effect such that semantically transparent forms are recognized faster than opaque derived forms.…”

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The morpheme gender effect

Meunier

Seigneuric

Spinelli

2008

Journal of Memory and Language

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The morpheme gender effect

Meunier

Seigneuric

Spinelli

2008

Journal of Memory and Language

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“…Schreuder and Baayen (1997) and Bertram, Schreuder, and Baayen (2000) pointed out, using visual lexical decision, that the exclusion of opaque family members from the family counts improves the correlations with response latencies. Similarly, in priming experiments the morphological family size of a target word interacts with the amount of priming elicited by semantically related prime-target pairs (Feldman & Pastizzo, 2003). De Jong, Schreuder, and Baayen (2000), again using visual lexical decision, provided further evidence that the effect of family size is not mediated by surface form.…”

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Changing places: A cross-language perspective on frequency and family size in Dutch and Hebrew

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Deutsch²,

Frost³

et al. 2005

Journal of Memory and Language

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This study uses the morphological family size effect as a tool for exploring the degree of isomorphism in the networks of morphologically related words in the Hebrew and Dutch mental lexicon. Hebrew and Dutch are genetically unrelated, and they structure their morphologically complex words in very different ways. Two visual lexical decision experiments document substantial cross-language predictivity for the family size measure after partialing out the effect of word frequency and word length. Our data show that the morphological family size effect is not restricted to Indo-European languages but extends to languages with non-concatenative morphology. In Hebrew, a new inhibitory component of the family size effect emerged that arises when a Hebrew root participates in different semantic fields

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“…Analogously, despite a shared morpheme and depending on the particular affix, derived morphological relatives tend to vary substantially in their semantic similarity to the target. Depending on the task, the magnitude of morphological facilitation among derivations can be sensitive to the degree of overlap in meaning between prime and target (Feldman & Pastizzo, 2003;. Importantly, as family size increases, morphological relatives that share meaning as well as form, and words that share form with minimal semantic overlap, tended to become progressively more distinct.…”

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“…For example, the meaning of allow is more transparent in the meaning of allowable than in the meaning of allowance. In recent years, the effect of semantic transparency on morphological facilitation has been a focus of interest (Feldman & Pastizzo, 2003;Feldman & Soltano, 1999;Feldman, Soltano, Pastizzo, & Francis, 2004). In large part, meaning similarity among morphological relatives is a function of semantic transparency, the degree to which words composed from a common base morpheme (e.g.…”

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Semantic influences on morphological facilitation

Feldman

Basnight-Brown

Pastizzo

2006

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Two semantic variables, concreteness and morphological family size, were examined in a single word and a primed lexical decision task. Single word recognition latencies were faster for concrete relative to abstract targets only when morphological family size was small. The magnitude of morphological facilitation for primes related by inflection was greater than by derivation although both revealed a very similar interaction of concreteness and family size. In summary, concreteness influenced morphological processing so as to produce slower decision latencies for small family abstract than concrete words both in a single word and in a morphologically primed context. However, magnitudes of facilitation in isolation from baselines provided an incomplete account of morphological processing.

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Morphological facilitation: The role of semantic transparency and family size

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

The morpheme gender effect

The morpheme gender effect

Changing places: A cross-language perspective on frequency and family size in Dutch and Hebrew

Semantic influences on morphological facilitation

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