title: Letter transpositions within and across morphemes.
abstract: Three masked-prime naming experiments were conducted to examine the impact of morpheme boundaries on letter transposition confusability effects. In Experiment 1, the priming effects of primes containing letter transpositions within (sunhsine) and transpositions across (susnhine) the constituents of compound words were compared with correctly spelled primes and primes containing letter substitutions in naming correctly spelled targets. Primes containing transpositions within morphemes facilitated naming as much as correctly spelled primes. Primes with transpositions across morphemes did not facilitate naming more than primes with letter substitutions. Experiment 2 replicated Experiment 1 and extended the effects to so-called pseudocompounds (mayhem). Experiment 3 extended the results to agentive derivational morphology (boaster). The results are discussed in the context of visual word recognition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820-6990, USA. kiel@uiuc.edu
authors.forename: Kiel
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Christianson
authors.forename: Rebecca L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rayner
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D014796:Visual Perception