Does linear position matter for morphological processing? Evidence from a Tagalog masked priming experiment
Does linear position matter for morphological processing? Evidence from a Tagalog masked priming experiment
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DOI：
10.1080/23273798.2023.2216813
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发表时间：
2023-06-07
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2.3
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Stockall，Linnaea
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作者：
Cayado，Dave Kenneth Tayao;Wray，Samantha;Stockall，Linnaea
本研究使用掩蔽启动范式研究了他加禄语中固定词、前缀词和后缀词的形态分解。我们直接比较了中缀词、ni- 前缀词和 -in 后缀词的形态启动，以检查中缀在早期和自动分解过程中是否与其他词缀进行类似的处理。我们发现中缀词、前缀词和后缀词具有显着的启动效应，但没有语义或拼写相似性启动效应。中固定词和前缀词的启动效应大小没有显着差异，这表明对于他加禄语使用者来说，中固定词的分解成本并不更高，这与基于语音调整的中固定解释相反。这是第一个心理语言学实验，表明在视觉单词识别过程中固定单词被分解为形态单元。我们提供的证据表明，中固定词中词干的不完美边缘对齐不会妨碍早期的形态分解机制，这表明边缘对齐对于触发形态单元的激活可能并不重要。
This study investigated morphological decomposition of Tagalog infixed, prefixed, and suffixed words using the masked priming paradigm. We directly compared morphological priming of infixed, ni- prefixed and -in suffixed words to examine whether infixes are processed similarly to other affixes during early and automatic decomposition. We found significant priming effects for infixed, prefixed, and suffixed words, but no semantic or orthographic similarity priming. Magnitudes of priming effects for infixed and prefixed words were not significantly different, suggesting that decomposition of infixed words was not more costly for Tagalog speakers, contrary to phonological readjustment-based accounts of infixation. This is the first psycholinguistic experiment showing that infixed words are decomposed into morphological units during visual word recognition. We provide evidence that the imperfect edge-alignment of the stem within infixed words does not hamper the early morphological decomposition mechanisms, suggesting that edge-alignment might not be critical to trigger activation of morphological units.