Lexicality, morphological structure, and semantic transparency in the processing of German ver-verbs: The complementarity of on-line and off-line evidence.
Two types of experiments investigate the visual on-line and off-line processing of German ver-verbs (e.g., verbittern 'to embitter'). In Experiments 1 and 2 (morphological priming), latency patterns revealed the existence of facilitation effects for the morphological conditions (BITTER-VERBITTERN and BITTERN-VERBITTERN) as compared to the neutral conditions (SAUBER-VERBITTERN and SAUBERN-VERBITTERN). In Experiments 3 and 4 (rating tasks) participants had to judge whether the target (VERBITTERN) "comes from," "contains a form of," or "contains the meaning of" the root (BITTER) or the root+en substring (BITTERN). Taken together, these studies revealed the combined influence of the three factors of lexicality (real word status), morphological structure, and semantic transparency.
Schirmeier
Matthias K
MK
Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, 4-32 Assiniboia Hall, Edmonton, Alta., Canada T6G 2E7. mks@ualberta.ca
Derwing
Bruce L
BL
Libben
Gary
G
D003657:Decision Making; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics