Orthographic and semantic opacity in masked and delayed priming: Evidence from Greek

Orfanidou, Eleni; Davis, Matthew H.; Marslen–Wilson, William D.

doi:10.1080/01690965.2010.509055

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“…Third, while the present set of truly suffixed items contained a mixture of derivational affixes (11; e.g., ly and y), inflectional affixes (14; e.g., ed and ing) and affixes that are used both derivationally and inflectionally (9; e.g., er and en), the affixes used in the pseudosuffixed condition were predominantly derivational (19 derivational, 2 inflectional, 13 derivational-inflectional). Recent evidence (e.g., Crepaldi, Rastle, Coltheart, & Nickels, 2010;Orfanidou, Davis, & Marslen-Wilson, 2011) suggests that there are differences in the representation of inflectional and derivational endings (e.g., in their robustness to orthographic changes). The different proportions of derivational and inflectional affixes across conditions could therefore potentially be responsible for the increased priming of truly suffixed items.…”

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Morphological processing during visual word recognition in developing readers: Evidence from masked priming

Beyersmann

Castles

Coltheart

2012

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Masked priming studies with adult readers have provided evidence for a form-based morpho-orthographic segmentation mechanism that "blindly" decomposes any word with the appearance of morphological complexity. The present studies investigated whether evidence for structural morphological decomposition can be obtained with developing readers. We used a masked primed lexical decision design first adopted by Rastle, Davis, and New (2004), comparing truly suffixed (golden-GOLD) and pseudosuffixed (mother-MOTH) prime-target pairs with nonsuffixed controls (spinach-SPIN). Experiment 1 tested adult readers, showing that priming from both pseudo- and truly suffixed primes could be obtained using our own set of high-frequency word materials. Experiment 2 assessed a group of Year 3 and Year 5 children, but priming only occurred when prime and target shared a true morphological relationship, and not when the relationship was pseudomorphological. This pattern of results indicates that morpho-orthographic decomposition mechanisms do not become automatized until a relatively late stage in reading development.

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Morphological processing during visual word recognition in developing readers: Evidence from masked priming

Beyersmann

Castles

Coltheart

2012

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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“…Using paradigms that are considered to be less sensitive to orthographic overlap also allowed us to (indirectly) explore whether pure morphological relatedness between pairs – and not orthographic overlap – could account for the priming facilitation produced at early stages of processing. Thus, in the following experiments, we explored priming effects in paradigms reflecting later morpho-semantic processing stages in visual word recognition ( Orfanidou et al, 2011 ).…”

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“…In the present experiment, we used a long-lag priming experiment to further test whether the pattern of results observed in Experiment 1 is preserved not only when the prime is fully visible but also when the interval between prime and target is long and occupied by unrelated words. Long-lag priming paradigms have been suggested to reflect semantic rather than orthographic levels of processing ( Orfanidou et al, 2011 ). Importantly, when items intervene between prime-target pairs in long-lag paradigms, priming effects persist for prime-target pairs that are morphologically or morphologically plus semantically related, whereas they disappear when they are only semantically related ( Bentin and Feldman, 1990 ; Feldman, 2000 ; Lahiri and Reetz, 2010 ; Schuster and Lahiri, 2019 ) or only orthographically related ( Orfanidou et al, 2011 ).…”

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“…Long-lag priming paradigms have been suggested to reflect semantic rather than orthographic levels of processing ( Orfanidou et al, 2011 ). Importantly, when items intervene between prime-target pairs in long-lag paradigms, priming effects persist for prime-target pairs that are morphologically or morphologically plus semantically related, whereas they disappear when they are only semantically related ( Bentin and Feldman, 1990 ; Feldman, 2000 ; Lahiri and Reetz, 2010 ; Schuster and Lahiri, 2019 ) or only orthographically related ( Orfanidou et al, 2011 ). Thus, the effects observed between morpho-semantically related prime and target words in these paradigms rely more on the morphological relation between word pairs than on their semantic or orthographic relation.…”

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Asymmetric Morphological Priming Among Inflected and Derived Verbs and Nouns in Greek

2021

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The present study examined differences between inflectional and derivational morphology using Greek nouns and verbs with masked priming (with both short and long stimulus onset asynchrony) and long-lag priming. A lexical decision task to inflected noun and verb targets was used to test whether their processing is differentially facilitated by prior presentation of their stem in words of the same grammatical class (inflectional morphology) or of a different grammatical class (derivational morphology). Differences in semantics, syntactic information, and morphological complexity between inflected and derived word pairs (both nouns and verbs) were minimized by unusually tight control of stimuli as permitted by Greek morphology. Results showed that morphological relations affected processing of morphologically complex Greek words (nouns and verbs) across prime durations (50–250ms) as well as when items intervened between primes and targets. In two of the four experiments (Experiments 1 and 3), inflectionally related primes produced significantly greater effects than derivationally related primes suggesting differences in processing inflectional versus derivational morphological relations, which may disappear when processing is less dependent on semantic effects (Experiment 4). Priming effects differed for verb vs. noun targets with long SOA priming (Experiment 3), consistent with processing differences between complex words of different grammatical class (nouns and verbs) when semantic effects are maximized. Taken together, results demonstrate that inflectional and derivational relations differentially affect processing complex words of different grammatical class (nouns and verbs). This finding indicates that distinctions of morphological relation (inflectional vs. derivational) are not of the same kind as distinctions of grammatical class (nouns vs. verbs). Asymmetric differences among inflected and derived verbs and nouns seem to depend on semantic effects and/or processing demands modulating priming effects very early in lexical processing of morphologically complex written words, consistent with models of lexical processing positing early access to morphological structure and early influence of semantics.

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“…As the study by Quémart et al (2011) implies, the priming time has to be relatively long to achieve results with young children, so we chose a long prime time in the current study. It is also of note that there is prior evidence suggesting that a longer stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA; the amount of time between the start of prime and the start of target) increases both semantic and morphological priming and decreases orthographic priming, at least in English (e.g., Feldman, 2000) and Greek (Orfanidou, Davis, & Marslen-Wilson, 2011). However, it has also been suggested that priming effects with a long SOA with adults might depend on the representation of the prime in participants' episodic memory (e.g., Diependaele, Grainger, & Sandra, 2012).…”

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Acquisition of Finnish derivational morphology: School-age children and young adults

2018

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The current study examined how morpho-semantic processing of derivational morphology develops from later childhood through adolescence to adulthood in Finnish. Finnish is a synthetic language rich both in derivation and inflection. It has been suggested that children gradually acquire the ability to process morphologically complex word structures. However, this development could be delayed because of the complex derivational morphology in Finnish. To assess this, three age groups of Finnish native speakers participated in a priming study, in which they made a visual lexical decision for the target words. There were three types of primes: morphologically related words, pseudowords, and unrelated words. The reaction times results showed a significant difference between all the groups, which implies that the word processing is still developing in adolescence. The error rates unveiled a similar pattern to reaction times. The prime type affected the recognition: words with morphological primes were processed faster than words with pseudoword primes, which in turn were processed faster than words with unrelated primes. Moreover, males made significantly more errors than females with morphological and pseudoword prime conditions.

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Orthographic and semantic opacity in masked and delayed priming: Evidence from Greek

Cited by 10 publications

References 49 publications

Morphological processing during visual word recognition in developing readers: Evidence from masked priming

Morphological processing during visual word recognition in developing readers: Evidence from masked priming

Asymmetric Morphological Priming Among Inflected and Derived Verbs and Nouns in Greek

Acquisition of Finnish derivational morphology: School-age children and young adults

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