Do ‘blacheap’ and ‘subcheap’ both prime ‘cheap’? An investigation of morphemic status and position in early visual word processing
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Heathcote, Lauren, Nation, Kate, Castles, Anne and Beyersmann, Elisabeth. (2018). Do ‘blacheap’ and ‘subcheap’ both prime ‘cheap’? An investigation of morphemic status and position in early visual word processing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 71(8), pp. 1645-1654. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1362704
Authors | Heathcote, Lauren, Nation, Kate, Castles, Anne and Beyersmann, Elisabeth |
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Abstract | Much research suggests that words comprising more than one morpheme are decomposed into morphemes in the early stages of visual word recognition. In the present masked primed lexical decision study, we investigated whether or not decomposition occurs for both prefixed and suffixed nonwords and for nonwords which comprise a stem and a non-morphemic ending. Prime–target relatedness was manipulated in three ways: (1) primes shared a semantically transparent morphological relationship with the target (e.g., subcheap-CHEAP, cheapize-CHEAP); (2) primes comprised targets and non-affixal letter strings (e.g., blacheap-CHEAP, cheapstry-CHEAP); and (3) primes were real, complex words unrelated to the target (e.g., miscall-CHEAP, idealism-CHEAP). Both affixed and non-affixed nonwords significantly facilitated the recognition of their stem targets, suggesting that embedded stems are activated independently of whether they are accompanied by a real affix or a non-affix. There was no difference in priming between stems being embedded in initial and final string positions, indicating that embedded stem activation is position-independent. Finally, more priming was observed in the semantically interpretable affixed condition than in the non-affixed condition, which points to a semantic licensing mechanism during complex novel word processing. |
Keywords | visual word recognition ; masked priming; lexical decision; morphological processing |
Year | 01 Jan 2018 |
Journal | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology |
Journal citation | 71 (8), pp. 1645-1654 |
Publisher | Sage Publications, Inc. (US) |
ISSN | 1747-0218 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1362704 |
PubMed ID | 28760071 |
Web address (URL) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1080/17470218.2017.1362704 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1645-1654 |
Author's accepted manuscript | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 01 Jan 2018 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 16 Jul 2017 |
Deposited | 24 Jul 2024 |
Additional information | © Experimental Psychology Society 2017. |
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This experiment formed part of L.H.’s MSc thesis (supported by a Medical Research Council studentship), supervised by K.N. The manuscript was prepared while K.N. and A.C. were supported by The Economic and Social Research Council (ES/M009998/1) and E.B. by a Macquarie University Research Fellowship. L.H. is now at the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, CA,USA. | |
Supplementary material is available at journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1080/17470218.2017.1362704. | |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
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