Morphologically complex words in L1 and L2 processing: Evidence from masked priming experiments in English

Silva, Renita; Clahsen, Harald

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“…The above conclusion coincides with those from Silva & Clahsen (2008), Diependaele et al (2011) and Yue et al (2012), revealing that L2 learners could acquire the decomposition processing mechanism for the derived words and made an online analysis of their morphological structures. This conclusion has provided future evidence for the view of Diependaele et al (2011) that the characteristics of the target words determined their processing mechanism.…”

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“…This view was confirmed in some empirical researches ( Up to now there have been few researches with regards to the processing of L2 derivatives and there are also differences between their conclusions. Silva & Clahsen (2008) found out that although there was no morphological decomposition in L2 learners' processing of inflectional words, there was morphological decomposition in their processing of derived words. In addition, there were no significant differences between Chinese EFL learners and German EFL learners and their performance in the processing of both inflectional words and derived ones proved to be the same.…”

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“…For example, at the vocabulary level, the composition of derivatives or inflectional morphemes which are composed of free morphemes or bound morphemes are quite popular in English, but seldom used in Chinese. It has become the mutual focus of the second language acquisition and psychological linguistic academic field that whether the differences of word composition between different languages affect L2 vocabulary learning and whether there is "decomposition" and "composition" in the processing of L2 complicated words (Basnight-brown et al 2007; Silva & Clahsen 2008;Zhang 2014. ) Most of the researchers discussed about this topic via online behavior experiments, of which masked priming was employed most frequently.…”

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Morphological Decomposition in Second Language Word Processing

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Abstract-This paper made a masked priming experiment to examine the Chinese learners' online processing of English derivatives or derived words so as to find out the effect of morphological structures on second language (L2) word processing. 39 Chinese freshmen of non-English majors participated in the experiment. Results indicated that derivatives had significant priming effect on the identification of their stems and that this kind of priming effect was not affected by the brain's familiarity with it, which meant that like L1, L2 derivative processing was also affected by the morphological structures and that morphological decomposition did exist. This conclusion supports the view of Diependaele et al. that the characteristics of the target words determined their processing mechanism. In addition, the main factors that affect the complicated processing mechanism prove to be the features which are composed of the morphemes instead of the features of the whole words.

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“…Mostly this rationale is built on evidence showing bilinguals process derivational morphology differently from inflectional morphology. Nonetheless, criticism on this rationale is that morphological priming results in bilinguals mostly resemble monolingual data, which also tend to show stronger morphemic priming with derivations than with inflections (FELDMAN, 1994;FRIEDERICI;GRAETZ, 1992;CLAHSEN, 2008).That is why, in this study we chose to focus only on the stimuli with derivational suffixes.…”

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“…pencil -garden) as the control condition in both L1 and L2. Facilitation of lexical access by morphological priming as compared to a control baseline has been attested both in monolinguals and bilinguals (DIJKSTRA et al, 2005;PORTIN et al, 2007;CLAHSEN, 2008;DOMINGUEZ;SEGUÍ;CUETOS, 2002), and -as an experimental effect-can be isolated from phonological, orthographical and semantic priming effects DELMAAR;LUPKER, 2000;DIJKSTRA et al, 1999). Target words that are morphologically related to their primes (e.g.…”

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Morphological priming resists language and modality switching in late Dutch-Brazilian Portuguese bilinguals

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Manhães

2017

RELIN

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Abstract:In this study, we aimed to investigate how late bilinguals of Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese (BP) engage in morphological processing in L2. Morphologically related and unrelated word pairs combined with cross-linguistic and cross-modal variations were presented in a lexical decision experiment in order to compare morphological priming effects in L2 and L1. We collected both reaction times and Event Related Potentials (ERPs). In L2, morphological priming effects were observed in lower amplitudes for the N400 component, but no effect was observed for RT measures. This can be explained under the assumption that the N400 component is more sensitive to lexical properties of roots (e.g.√friend) than to lexical properties of full word forms (e.g. friendliness). We consider that difficulties in L2 morphological processing are not necessarily due to a lack of parsing of morphemic units, but because of Revista de Estudos da Linguagem, Belo Horizonte, v.25, n.3, p. 1717-1766, 2017 1718 the difficulty in the semantic interpretation of derivational morphemes in L2. This occurs via compositional mechanisms that are grammatically constrained, which are especially difficult to acquire in adult life. This is in line with what is suggested by the Superficial Processing Hypothesis (CLAHSEN et al., 2010). Moreover cross-linguistic priming showed that although morphological priming occurred for switching from L2 to L1, it caused the opposite effect for switching from L1 to L2. These results confirm predictions made by the Revised Hierarchical Model (KROLL et al., 2010), which explains this type of data in terms of the relative weakness of concept to word form mapping in L2 as compared to word form to concept mapping. Keywords: switching; bilingual word recognition; N400.Resumo: Neste estudo, pretende-se investigar o processamento morfológico em bilíngues tardios de holandês (L1) e português brasileiro (L2). Pares de palavras morfologicamente relacionados e pares não relacionados foram apresentados em uma tarefa de decisão lexical com alternância de línguas e de modalidade entre prime e alvo a fim de comparar efeitos de priming morfológico na L1 e na L2. Coletamos tempos de resposta (TRs) e Potenciais Relacionados a Eventos (ERPs). Na L2, efeitos de priming morfológico foram observados nas amplitudes reduzidas do componente do N400, mas nenhum efeito foi observado para os TRs. Isso pode ser explicado, se considerar que o N400 é mais sensível às propriedades lexicais das raízes (ex. √amigo) do que às propriedades lexicais das palavras inteiras (ex. amigável). As dificuldades no processamento morfológico na L1 não são necessariamente devidas a uma falha na segmentação dos morfemas, mas devido à dificuldade para interpretar os morfemas derivacionais semanticamente. Isso depende de mecanismos composicionais que são guiadas pelas regras morfológicas que são especialmente difíceis para serem adquiridas durante a vida adulta. Essa conclusão está de acordo com a Hipótese de Processamento Superficial (CLAHSEN et al., 2010). Ainda, a...

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Perceptual Development and Statistical Learning

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2015

The Handbook of Language Emergence

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Morphologically complex words in L1 and L2 processing: Evidence from masked priming experiments in English

Cited by 176 publications

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Morphological Decomposition in Second Language Word Processing

Morphological Decomposition in Second Language Word Processing

Morphological priming resists language and modality switching in late Dutch-Brazilian Portuguese bilinguals

Perceptual Development and Statistical Learning

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