What do graded effects of semantic transparency reveal about morphological processing?

Feldman, Laurie Beth; Soltano, Emily G.; Pastizzo, Matthew John; Francis, Sarah E.

doi:10.1016/s0093-934x(03)00416-4

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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.…”

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“…non-masked priming designs (in which the prime word is shown long enough to be perceived consciously), many studies find a dissociation between priming for transparent versus opaque conditions: Transparent conditions show facilitatory priming, while this is not the case for opaque conditions. This has been found for visual priming (visually presented primes and targets; English: Feldman & Soltano, 1999;Feldman, Soltano, Pastizzo, & Francis, 2004;Rastle, Davis, Marslen-Wilson, & Tyler, 2000;Serbian: Feldman, Barac-Cikoja, & Kostić, 2002; but see Smolka, Komlósi, & Rösler, 2009 (German)) and cross-modal priming (auditorily presented primes and visual targets; English: Feldman et al, 2004;Gonnerman, Seidenberg, & Andersen, 2007;Marslen-Wilson, Tyler, Waksler, & Older, 1994 Zwitserlood, & Bolte, 2011 (German)). …”

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

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“…However, at 250 ms, they obtained facilitation for the morphological and semantic primes, but inhibition for the orthographic primes. These data, along with the results of Rastle et al (2000), provide strong evidence that amorphologically structured level of representation plays an important role in visual word recognition, and suggest that early morphological influences can be obtained independently of semantic relatedness, which should only influence morphological priming at longer prime durations (Feldman, Barac-Cikoja, & Kostic, 2002;Feldman, Soltano, Pastizzo, & Francis, 2004;Marslen-Wilson et al, 1994).These morphological priming effects can be accommodated by two classes of hypotheses distinguished by the putative locus of such effects. According to the supralexical hypothesis (e.g., Giraudo & Grainger, 2001), morphological relations between words are represented in the way whole-word form representations are connected at a higher level, and this connectivity is determined by semantic transparency.…”

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Semantic transparency and masked morphological priming: An ERP investigation

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The role of semantics in the segmentation of morphologically complex words was examined using event-related potentials (ERPs) recorded to target words primed by semantically transparent (hunterhunt,) opaque (corner-corn), and orthographically related (scandal-scan) masked primes. Behavioral data showed that only transparent items gave rise to priming. The ERP data showed both N250 and the N400 effects with transparent items generating greater priming than orthographic or opaque. Furthermore, priming effects across conditions revealed the existence of a significant linear trend, with transparent items showing the greatest effects and orthographic items the smallest, suggesting that these priming effects vary as a function of morphological structure and semantic transparency. The results are discussed in terms of a model of morphological processing. Descriptors ERP; N400; Masked priming; MorphologyPrior research on the processing of morphologically complex words has focused on identifying the extent to which morphological information is automatically retrieved during word processing. Most researchers agree that morphological information of some kind becomes available during the processing of a complex word. Nevertheless, there is still disagreement about how this information is stored in memory. Complex words may be stored as full forms in the mental lexicon or, alternatively, they may be represented as a combination of their constituent morphemes and undergo decomposition during processing.The degree to which morphologically complex words are semantically transparent may be important in determining to what extent such words undergo decomposition, as it seems intuitively plausible that lexical entries for semantically related words should be related in some way (Marslen-Wilson, Tyler, Waksler, & Older, 1994). If semantically related items share the lexical entry of their common stem, it is possible that lexical access is achieved via a representation of the stem rather than the derived form. A morphologically complex word is semantically transparent if its meaning can be derived directly from the combined meaning of its stem and affix (e.g., "un-happy"). In contrast, the meaning of semantically opaque words NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptPsychophysiology. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2009 September 24. Published in final edited form as:Psychophysiology. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript (e.g., "department") cannot be directly derived from the combined meaning of their component morphemes. Although at an earlier time in the history of the English language such words may have been related, and they may still be considered to have a morphological structure in that they consist of a clear stem and affix, the morphological relationship is formal rather than semantic.The present study aims to provide further empirical evidence with respect to the extent to which morphologically complex words are decomposed during processing, by using morphological priming and ...

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“…among others, Feldman, Soltani et al 2004;Hoey 2006), is a phenomenon analyzed at the interlinguistic level in this study. The hypothesis proposed is that data from the localized corpus and from students show a preference towards producing graphically similar words in the translated texts, a phenomenon that is observed when comparing specific renderings in both localized corpora with those in the original corpus.…”

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Applying Corpus Data to Define Needs in Web Localization Training

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La localisation prend de plus en plus d’importance dans les programmes universitaires d’enseignement de la traduction. Cependant, peu de recherches empiriques se penchent sur des questions telles que la relation entre localisation et traduction, les champs de compétence spécifiques à la localisation ou sur la manière de rendre compte des différences culturelles en rapport avec le genre des productions numériques, les types textuels et les conventions en usage. Se basant sur les recherches antérieures menées sur les compétences traductionnelles, le présent article vise à proposer les fondements de l’étude des compétences en localisation. La recherche a mis en oeuvre une étude empirique contrastive, fondée sur des corpus, des traductions d’étudiants, ainsi que des données provenant d’un corpus comparable, constitué de textes originaux en espagnol et de textes localisés en espagnol. Notre objectif est d’identifier les différences dans la production des textes numériques localisés par des étudiants et des professionnels, d’une part, et des textes originaux, de l’autre. Cette analyse contrastive vise à mieux comprendre comment les compétences en localisation sont en lien avec le concept inclusif de compétences traductionnelles, afin de relever les aspects sur lesquels devrait porter la formation en localisation au niveau universitaire.Localization is increasingly making its way into translation training programs at university level. However, there is still a scarce amount of empirical research addressing issues such as defining localization in relation to translation, what localization competence entails or how to best incorporate intercultural differences between digital genres, text types and conventions, among other aspects. In this paper, we propose a foundation for the study of localization competence based upon previous research on translation competence. This project was developed following an empirical corpus-based contrastive study of student translations (learner corpus), combined with data from a comparable corpus made up of an original Spanish corpus and a Spanish localized corpus. The objective of the study is to identify differences in production between digital texts localized by students and professionals on the one hand, and original texts on the other. This contrastive study allows us to gain insight into how localization competence interrelates with the superordinate concept of translation competence, thus shedding light on which aspects need to be addressed during localization training in university translation programs

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What do graded effects of semantic transparency reveal about morphological processing?

Cited by 64 publications

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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

Semantic transparency and masked morphological priming: An ERP investigation

Applying Corpus Data to Define Needs in Web Localization Training

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