Taking the book from the bookshelf : Masked constituent priming effects from compound words and nonwords
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Beyersmann, Elisabeth, Kezilas, Yvette, Coltheart, Max, Castles, Anne, Ziegler, Johannes C., Taft, Marcus and Grainger, Jonathan. (2018). Taking the book from the bookshelf : Masked constituent priming effects from compound words and nonwords. Journal of Cognition. 1(1), pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.11
Authors | Beyersmann, Elisabeth, Kezilas, Yvette, Coltheart, Max, Castles, Anne, Ziegler, Johannes C., Taft, Marcus and Grainger, Jonathan |
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Abstract | Recent evidence from visual word recognition points to the important role of embedded words, suggesting that embedded words are activated independently of whether they are accompanied by an affix or a non-affix. The goal of the present research was to more closely examine the mechanisms involved in embedded word activation, particularly with respect to the “edge-alignedness” of the embedded word. We conducted two experiments that used masked priming in combination with lexical decision. In Experiment 1, monomorphemic target words were either preceded by a compound word prime (e.g., textbook-BOOK/textbook-TEXT), a compound-nonword prime (e.g., pilebook-BOOK/textpile-TEXT), a non-compound nonword prime (e.g., pimebook-BOOK/textpime-TEXT) or an unrelated prime (e.g., textjail-BOOK/jailbook-TEXT). The results revealed significant priming effects, not only in the compound word and compound-nonword conditions, but also in the non-compound nonword condition, suggesting that embedded words (e.g., book) were activated independently of whether they occurred in combination with a real morpheme (e.g., pilebook) or a non-morphemic constituent (e.g., pimebook). Priming in the compound word condition was greater than in the two nonword conditions, indicating that participants benefited from the whole-word representation of real compound words. Constituent priming occurred independently of whether the target word was the first or the second embedded constituent of the prime (e.g., textbook-BOOK vs. textbook-TEXT). In Experiment 2, significant priming effects were found for edge-aligned embedded constituents (e.g., pimebook-BOOK), but not for mid-embedded (e.g., pibookme-BOOK) or the outer-embedded constituents (e.g., bopimeok-BOOK), suggesting that edge-alignedness is a key factor determining the activation of embedded words. |
Keywords | compound word processing; embedded words ; masked priming; lexical decision |
Year | 01 Jan 2018 |
Journal | Journal of Cognition |
Journal citation | 1 (1), pp. 1-13 |
Publisher | Ubiquity Press Ltd. |
ISSN | 2514-4820 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.11 |
Web address (URL) | https://journalofcognition.org/articles/10.5334/joc.11#acknowledgements |
Open access | Open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1-13 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 26 Jan 2018 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 27 Dec 2017 |
Deposited | 19 Jul 2024 |
Additional information | © 2018 The Author(s). |
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative | |
This research was supported by the Brain and Language Research Institute (BLRI, ANR-11-LABX-0036) and the Institute of Convergence ILCB (ANR-16-CONV-0002). It has benefited from support from the French government, managed by the French National Agency for Research (ANR-15-FRAL-0003-01) and the Excellence Initiative of Aix-Marseille University (A*MIDEX). We thank Nicholas Badcock, Saskia Kohnen, and Eva | |
Supplementary material available at https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/JoC_Exp1data_csv/5797338 | |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
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