Sharing morphemes without sharing meaning: Production and comprehension of German verbs in the context of morphological relatives.

Lüttmann, Heidi; Zwitserlood, Pienie; Bölte, Jens

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“…These results are in agreement with many behavioral priming studies showing a lack of priming for morphologically complex, semantically opaque words (Feldman & Soltano, 1999;Feldman et al, 2002Feldman et al, , 2004Gonnerman et al, 2007;Longtin et al, 2003;Marslen-Wilson et al, 1994;Rastle et al, 2000;Zwitserlood et al, 2005). However, in several morphological priming studies (Luttmann et al, 2011;Smolka et al, 2009), German opaque complex verbs did give evidence of being decomposed by native speakers of German. One could hypothesize that this discrepancy is due to the task being used: Perhaps decomposition of opaque complex verbs was induced by the morphological priming technique (in which, e.g., a prime like reheat is followed by a target like heat) used in these studies.…”

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Embodied language in first- and second-language speakers: Neural correlates of processing motor verbs

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a b s t r a c tThe involvement of neural motor and sensory systems in the processing of language has so far mainly been studied in native (L1) speakers. In an fMRI experiment, we investigated whether non-native (L2) semantic representations are rich enough to allow for activation in motor and somatosensory brain areas. German learners of Dutch and a control group of Dutch native speakers made lexical decisions about visually presented Dutch motor and non-motor verbs. Region-of-interest (ROI) and whole-brain analyses indicated that L2 speakers, like L1 speakers, showed significantly increased activation for simple motor compared to non-motor verbs in motor and somatosensory regions. This effect was not restricted to Dutch-German cognate verbs, but was also present for non-cognate verbs. These results indicate that L2 semantic representations are rich enough for motor-related activations to develop in motor and somatosensory areas.

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Section: Cognate Verb Subdesign: Holistic Processing Of Opaque Complesupporting

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Embodied language in first- and second-language speakers: Neural correlates of processing motor verbs

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“…For instance, Baayen, Levelt, Schreuder, and Ernestus (2008) examined the processing of regularly inflected nouns and showed that morpheme (lexeme) frequency can modulate participants' response speed in both word recognition and production. Lüttmann et al (2011a) tested the recognition and the production of derived German verbs with the cross-modal priming and the PWI paradigms. As compared with the unrelated baseline, a morphologically related distractor (prime) could facilitate target word processing significantly.…”

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“…In the following, we first review previous experimental evidence about the role of morphology in word recognition and production, and their implications on the development of language processing models (also see Lüttmann, Zwitserlood, & Bölte, 2011a). Next, we explain why it is important to consider the temporal dynamics of the activation of morphemic form and meaning in the present study.…”

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Morpho-orthographic and morpho-semantic processing in word recognition and production: evidence from ambiguous morphemes

Tsang

Wong

Huang

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Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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2014). Morpho-orthographic and morpho-semantic processing in word recognition and production: Evidence from ambiguous morphemes. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 29 (5), 543-560. https://doi. AbstractTwo sets of experiments were conducted to investigate the role of morphemes in word recognition and production. These experiments employed three priming procedures (i.e., masked, unmasked, and long lag) to study the relatively early to late stages of morphological processing. Targets were Chinese compound words containing an ambiguous morpheme (analogous to "chair" in "chairman" vs. "armchair"). Primes and targets shared the same ambiguous morpheme with the same interpretation (S), a different interpretation (D), or were completely unrelated (U). For word recognition, the facilitation by the S and the D primes was statistically identical in the masked priming procedure. But only the S primes continued to facilitate word recognition in the unmasked and the long lag priming procedures. In contrast, for word production, only the D primes produced significant facilitation in masked priming. In unmasked priming, both the S and D primes facilitated the naming reaction times, as compared with the unrelated baseline. But the facilitation was stronger in the S than in the D conditions. Finally, in the long lag priming procedure, both the S and the D primes produced facilitation of equal strength. These results indicate that the processing of ambiguous morpheme involves both morphemic form and meaning, and that the temporal dynamics of the two effects differ in recognition and production.

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“…Dual-route accounts assume morpheme-based processing for semantically transparent complex words (e.g., birdhouse), but (more) holistic processing for opaque words (e.g., hotdog). Most data that test such predictions come from comprehension studies, or from studies on the interface between comprehension and production, presenting complex words as distractors to pictures with monomorphemic names (e.g., Zwitserlood et al, 2002; Köster and Schiller, 2008; Lüttmann et al, 2011b; Verdonschot et al, 2012). To date, studies on the actual production of complex words are quite rare (e.g., Roelofs and Baayen, 2002; Lüttmann et al, 2011a; Jacobs and Dell, 2014).…”

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Semantically Transparent and Opaque Compounds in German Noun-Phrase Production: Evidence for Morphemes in Speaking

Lorenz

Zwitserlood

2016

Front. Psychol.

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This study examines the lexical representation and processing of noun-noun compounds and their grammatical gender during speech production in German, a language that codes for grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, and neuter). Using a picture-word interference paradigm, participants produced determiner-compound noun phrases in response to pictures, while ignoring written distractor words. Compound targets were either semantically transparent (e.g., birdhouse) or opaque (e.g., hotdog), and their constituent nouns either had the same or a different gender (internal gender match). Effects of gender-congruent but otherwise unrelated distractor nouns, and of two morphologically related distractors corresponding to the first or second constituent were assessed relative to a completely unrelated, gender-incongruent distractor baseline. Both constituent distractors strongly facilitated compound naming, and these effects were independent of the targets' semantic transparency. This supports retrieval of constituent morphemes for semantically transparent and opaque compounds during speech production. Furthermore, gender congruency between compounds and distractors did not speed up naming in general, but interacted with gender match of the compounds' constituent nouns, and their semantic transparency. A significant gender-congruency effect was obtained with semantically transparent compounds, consisting of two constituent nouns of the same gender, only. In principle, this pattern is compatible with a multiple lemma representation account for semantically transparent, but not for opaque compounds. The data also fit with a more parsimonious, holistic representation for all compounds at the lemma level, when differences in co-activation patterns for semantically transparent and opaque compounds are considered.

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Sharing morphemes without sharing meaning: Production and comprehension of German verbs in the context of morphological relatives.

Cited by 20 publications

References 111 publications

Embodied language in first- and second-language speakers: Neural correlates of processing motor verbs

Embodied language in first- and second-language speakers: Neural correlates of processing motor verbs

Morpho-orthographic and morpho-semantic processing in word recognition and production: evidence from ambiguous morphemes

Semantically Transparent and Opaque Compounds in German Noun-Phrase Production: Evidence for Morphemes in Speaking

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