Processing trade-offs in the reading of Dutch derived words

Kuperman, Victor; Bertram, Raymond; Baayen, R. Harald

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2009.10.001

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“…There was a significant effect of whole-word frequency as well as a reduced but significant effect of stem frequency. The word frequency effect was about twice the size of the stem frequency effect, replicating other studies reporting such joint frequency effects for reading (e.g., Baayen et al, 1997Baayen et al, , 2007Kuperman et al, 2010).…”

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“…This means that the present experiment and the auditory lexical decision experiment of Balling and Baayen (2008) are consistent in showing an interaction between whole-word and second constituent frequency. Similar interactions between whole-word and constituent frequencies are reported by Kuperman et al (2009) and Kuperman, Bertram, and Baayen (2010).…”

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Probability and surprisal in auditory comprehension of morphologically complex words

Balling

Baayen

2012

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Two auditory lexical decision experiments document for morphologically complex words two points at which the probability of a target word given the evidence shifts dramatically. The first point is reached when morphologically unrelated competitors are no longer compatible with the evidence. Adapting terminology from Marslen-Wilson (1984), we refer to this as the word's initial uniqueness point (UP1). The second point is the complex uniqueness point (CUP) introduced by Balling and Baayen (2008), at which morphologically related competitors become incompatible with the input. Later initial as well as complex uniqueness points predict longer response latencies. We argue that the effects of these uniqueness points arise due to the large surprisal (Levy, 2008) carried by the phonemes at these uniqueness points, and provide independent evidence that how cumulative surprisal builds up in the course of the word co-determines response latencies. The presence of effects of surprisal, both at the initial uniqueness point of complex words, and cumulatively throughout the word, challenges the Shortlist B model of Norris and McQueen (2008), and suggests that a Bayesian approach to auditory comprehension requires complementation from information theory in order to do justice to the cognitive cost of updating probability distributions over lexical candidates.Keywords: spoken word recognition; Shortlist B; morphological processing; uniqueness points; neighbourhood measures; (cumulative) surprisal; Kullback-Leibler divergence; morphological family size. The Shortlist B model proposed by Norris and McQueen (2008) is the most comprehensive computational theory of auditory comprehension available to date. The model computes that sequence of words that is most likely to represent the lexical parse of the utterance heard, given the input, a stream of phonemes coming in over time. For instance, given the Dutch sequence of spoken words kar personen, the final state of the model is one in which kar ('cart') and personen ('persons') have probability 1, whereas competitors such as karper ('carp') and persoon ('persons') have probability 0.

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Probability and surprisal in auditory comprehension of morphologically complex words

Balling

Baayen

2012

Cognition

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“…Models that advocate that complex words are accessed via morphological decomposition (computation) are contrasted with those that suggest they are lexically stored and accessed as whole units (storage) (cf. Baayen (2007), Bertram, Schreuder and Baayen (2000) and Kuperman et al (2010) for the balance between the effects of storage vs. computation in lexical processing).…”

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“…Baayen (2007); Kuperman et al (2009) ;Kuperman, et al (2010)). Although a direct route is most efficient for the processing of high-frequency complex words (e.g.…”

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“…Dual-route parallel models (such as Schreuder and Baayen (1995), Baayen and Schreuder (1999;) and models that combine morpho-orthographic and morphosemantic systems that may lead to either the whole-word or decomposition (proposed by Diependaele et al (2005)) respond to scientific evidence that many factors influence access to complex words (cf. Kuperman et al (2010) for a review of the area).…”

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Limits on the extension of affixal combination: structural restrictions and processing conditions

Rodrigues¹

2017

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Limits on the extension of affixal combination: structural restrictions and processing conditions The study of the mental lexicon has been fostered by the analysis of the way complex words are mentally represented and processed. This paper concerns the syntagmatic extension of multiple affixation; specifically, the processing of complex words that contain four suffixes that operate in word-formation patterns of Portuguese. Although the individual addition of suffixes obeys structural constraints, the multiple combination results in complex words with low frequency and low expectedness by the speaker, which contribute to the lack of semantic transparency and of affixal salience of the combination. Our study demonstrates a relation between these factors and the experience of the speaker with the affixal combination, which determines the pattern character of the combination. We suggest that a suffix exerts the prediction of other suffixes as long as the combination is expected. Non-frequent heterocategorial complex words with a combination of four suffixes are contrasted with non-frequent words containing pleonastic affixation. In the latter type of words, the redundancy of semantic structures increases the semantic transparency of the word, which suggests a prediction effect operating on the semantic level of the affixal combination. Processing of complex words is dependent on the level of expectedness of the speaker towards the affix combination, which constrains the level of word acceptance by speakers.

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A Study of Base Frequency in Spanish Skilled and Reading‐Disabled Children: All Children Benefit from Morphological Processing in Defining Complex Pseudowords

Lázaro

2012

Dyslexia

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In this study, the base frequency (BF) effect is explored in reading-disabled and skilled readers of Spanish. A pseudoword definition task was completed by two groups of children. The pseudowords were composed from existing stems and affixes. The results show a facilitatory BF effect, suggesting that all children benefited from this aspect of morphology. A significant effect of group was also observed, showing that skilled readers scored better than reading-disabled children. The interaction between these variables was not significant. The overall pattern of data suggests that all children benefited from morphological processing to perform the definition task but that phonological difficulties in reading-disabled children prevented them from benefitting from the BF effect as much as their skilled peers.

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Processing trade-offs in the reading of Dutch derived words

Cited by 108 publications

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Probability and surprisal in auditory comprehension of morphologically complex words

Probability and surprisal in auditory comprehension of morphologically complex words

Limits on the extension of affixal combination: structural restrictions and processing conditions

A Study of Base Frequency in Spanish Skilled and Reading‐Disabled Children: All Children Benefit from Morphological Processing in Defining Complex Pseudowords

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