Relationship between derived words and their stems in Japanese English learners' metal lexicon.

本研究试图揭示派生词及其词干之间的词汇网络是如何在日本英语学习者的心理词典中构建的。结果表明，日本英语学习者和英语本族语者一样，对英语派生词的内部结构非常敏感，这意味着日本英语学习者会将某些派生词分解成其成分进行处理。研究还发现，与英语本族语者不同，日本英语学习者没有从语义加工中获得足够的语义反馈，因此拼写激活不受抑制。

This study attempts to reveal how the lexical network between derived words and their stems is structured in the mental lexicon of Japanese English learners. The results show that Japanese English learners are as sensitive to the internal structures of English derived words as native English speakers, meaning that Japanese English learners decompose certain derived words into their components to process. It was also found that Japanese learners of English,unlike native English speakers, did not obtain sufficient semantic feedback from semantic processing, so that orthographic activation was not inhibited.