The Contribution of Frequency and Semantic Similarity to Morphological Processing

Raveh, Michal

doi:10.1006/brln.2001.2527

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“…The pattern in Serbian replicated that reported by Feldman et al (2001) in English. Like associative facilitation that increases with SOA (Lorch, 1982;Raveh, 1999), Feldman and her colleagues claimed that the semantic contribution to processing among morphological relatives progresses over time, so that differences between opaque and transparent forms become greater as SOA increases. In the present study, significant facilitation after inflectionally related primes accompanied the SOA 3 transparency interaction,thereby rendering implausible an interpretation based on lack of power to detect differences at the 48-msec SOA.…”

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“…With immediate unmasked visual (Raveh, 1999) and cross-modal (Pastizzo & Feldman, 2001b) variants of the primed lexical decision task in English, facilitation was greater after inflections than after derivations. Similarly in Hebrew, effects of semantic transparency among derivationally related primes and targets arose with visual (Bentin & Feldman, 1990), as well as with cross-modal (Frost, Deutsch, Gilboa, Tannenbaum, & Marslen-Wilson, 2000), presentations.…”

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“…The goal of Experiment 1B was to contrast the effect of transparent and opaque morphological relatives on decision latencies to visual targets when primes appeared at a 48-msec SOA. On the basis of the absence of semantic transparency effects at very short SOAs with English derivations (Feldman & Soltano, 1999) and the absence of a difference between English inflectionsand derivationsthat were matched on orthographic overlap to the target (Raveh, 1999;Raveh & Rueckl, 2000) in Serbian, we did not expect to observe differences between opaque and transparent forms under those experimental conditions that tend to be relatively insensitive to semantic dimensions of relatedness. Because they retained greater orthographic similarity, as well as semantic similarity, to the target, we anticipated that even at short SOAs, inflectional primes would produce greater facilitation than would derivational primes.…”

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“…On the basis of previous work at SOAs of 250 msec or greater (Bentin & Feldman, 1990;Feldman & Raveh, in press;Feldman & Soltano, 1999;Raveh & Feldman, 1998), effects of semantic transparency among verb forms created from a common base morpheme were anticipated. The goal of Experiment 1B was to contrast the effect of transparent and opaque morphological relatives on decision latencies to visual targets when primes appeared at a 48-msec SOA.…”

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Semantic aspects of morphological processing: Transparency effects in Serbian

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We examined the contribution of semantics to morphological facilitation in the visual lexical decision task at two stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) with Serbian materials. Primes appeared in Roman or Cyrillic characters. Targets always were printed in Roman. When primes were presented at an SOA of 250 msec, decision latencies to verbal targets (e.g., volim) showed greatest facilitation after inflectionally (e.g., vole) related primes, significantly less after semanticallytransparent derived primes (e.g., zavole), and less again after semantically opaque derived primes (e.g., prevole). Latencies after semantically transparent and opaque derived target words did not differ at an SOA of 48 msec. Both were slower than after inflectionally related primes. Stated generally,effects of semantic transparency among derivationally related verb forms were evident at long SOAs, but not at short ones. Under alphabetalternating conditions, magnitudes of facilitationwere greater overall,but the pattern was similar. The outcome suggests that restrictedprocessing time for the prime limits the contribution of semantics to morphological processing and calls into question accounts that posit a task-invariant semantic criterion for morphological decomposition within the lexicon.

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“…Approaches to morphological processing based on the connectionist model of visual word recognition (see Joanisse & Seidenberg, 1999;Raveh, 2002;Rueckl, Mikolinski, Raveh, Miner, & Mars, 1997;Rueckl & Raveh, 1999;Seidenberg & Gonnerman, 2000) assume that a single system supports processing of both monomorphemic and complex words and that no decomposition takes place. Morphological relationships between words, according to these models, result from overlap in the orthographic, phonological, and semantic properties of the words.…”

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Dual-route processing of complex words: New fMRI evidence from derivational suffixation

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Polk

Lewis

2005

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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Many behavioral models of the comprehension of suffixed words assume a dual-route mechanism in which these words are accessed sometimes from the mental lexicon as whole units and sometimes in terms of their component morphemes (such as happiϩness). In related neuropsychological work, Ullman et al. (1997) proposed a dual-route model for past tense processing, in which the lexicon (used for access to irregularly inflected forms) corresponds to declarative memory and a medial temporal/ parietal circuit, and the rule system (used for computation of regularly inflected forms) corresponds to procedural memory and a frontal (including Broca's area)/basal ganglia circuit. We used functional MRI and a memory encoding task to test this model for derivationally suffixed words, comparing those words that show evidence of decompositional processing in behavioral studies (-ness, -less, and -able words) with derived words that do not show decomposition effects (-ity and -ation words). By examining Broca's area and the basal ganglia as regions of interest, we found that "decomposable" derived and inflected words showed increases in activity relative to nondecomposable suffixed words. Results support a dual-route model of lexical access of complex words that is consistent with the Ullman et al. proposal.

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Deficient morphological processing in adults with developmental dyslexia: another barrier to efficient word recognition?

Schiff

Raveh

2006

Dyslexia

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Research on dyslexia has focused on the phonological level of linguistic analysis. Here we extend the investigation of the linguistic competence of individuals with dyslexia to the morphological level of linguistic analysis. We examine whether adult Hebrew readers with dyslexia extract and represent morphemic units similarly to normal readers. Using the priming paradigm in the word fragment completion task, we measured the magnitude of morphological priming and contrasted this effect with the repetition priming effect. Students with normal reading ability showed the typical repetition priming effect. A comparable repetition priming effect was also found for the dyslexic group as a whole. However, when the dyslexics were classified into three subtypes according to their phonological and orthographic decoding skills, repetition priming effects were significant only for the phonological dyslexia subgroup but not for the surface or mixed dyslexia subgroups. Furthermore, students with normal reading ability showed strong morphological priming, comparable in strength to the repetition priming effect. In contrast, the dyslexic readers did not show morphological priming, neither the dyslexia group as a whole, nor any of the subgroups. Our results highlight an additional source for dyslexics' difficulties with word recognition which lie at the level of morphological processing.

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The Contribution of Frequency and Semantic Similarity to Morphological Processing

Cited by 41 publications

References 17 publications

Semantic aspects of morphological processing: Transparency effects in Serbian

Semantic aspects of morphological processing: Transparency effects in Serbian

Dual-route processing of complex words: New fMRI evidence from derivational suffixation

Deficient morphological processing in adults with developmental dyslexia: another barrier to efficient word recognition?

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