'Fell' primes 'fall', but does 'bell' prime 'ball'? Masked priming with irregularly-inflected primes
'Fell' primes 'fall', but does 'bell' prime 'ball'? Masked priming with irregularly-inflected primes
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jml.2010.03.002
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发表时间：
2010-07-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Nickels, Lyndsey
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作者：
Crepaldi, Davide;Rastle, Kathleen;Nickels, Lyndsey
最近的掩蔽启动实验揭示了一种形态学层面的分析，这种分析完全基于单词的正字法，因此它将corner分解为corn-和-er，将dealer分解为deal-和-er （Rastle, Davis, & New, 2004）。由于对语义因素不敏感，这种词形-正字法切分过程无法捕捉不规则屈折词与其基本形式（如fell-fall， bought-buy）之间的形态关系；因此，我们预测这些词在掩蔽启动实验中不应该相互促进。然而，本研究中描述的第一个实验表明，相对于拼写匹配的（例如，fill）和不相关的控制词（例如，hope）， fell确实更容易导致跌倒。实验2和3还表明，这种效应不能通过具有许多不规则屈折特征的正字法子规则来解释，因为当测试具有相同正字法模式的不相关单词时（例如，tell-tall与toll-tall）没有启动。这些结果强调了隐藏形态启动的第二高层次来源的存在；我们提出，启动的第二个来源位于引理水平，其中屈折词（但不是派生词）共享其表示，而不考虑正字法规则。(C) 2010爱思唯尔公司版权所有。
Recent masked priming experiments have brought to light a morphological level of analysis that is exclusively based on the orthographic appearance of words, so that it breaks down corner into corn- and -er, as well as dealer into deal- and -er (Rastle, Davis, & New, 2004). Being insensitive to semantic factors, this morpho-orthographic segmentation process cannot capture the morphological relationship between irregularly inflected words and their base forms (e.g., fell-fall, bought-buy); hence, the prediction follows that these words should not facilitate each other in masked priming experiments. However, the first experiment described in the present work demonstrates that fell does facilitate fall more than orthographically matched (e.g., fill) and unrelated control words (e.g., hope). Experiments 2 and 3 also show that this effect cannot be explained through orthographic sub-regularities that characterize many irregular inflections, as no priming arose when unrelated words showing the same orthographic patterns were tested (e.g., tell-tall vs. toll-tall). These results highlight the existence of a second higher-level source of masked morphological priming; we propose that this second source of priming is located at the lemma level, where inflected words (but not derived words) share their representation irrespective of orthographic regularity. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.