Semantic transparency and masked morphological priming: the case of prefixed words.
In four lexical decision experiments, we investigated masked morphological priming with Dutch prefixed words. Reliable effects of morphological relatedness were obtained with visual primes and visual targets in the absence of effects due to pure form overlap. In certain conditions, priming effects were significantly greater with semantically transparent prefixed primes (e.g., rename-name) relative to the priming effects obtained with semantically opaque prefixed words (e.g., relate-late), even with very brief (40-msec) prime durations. With visual primes and auditory targets (cross-modal priming), significant facilitation was found in all related prime conditions, independent of whether or not primes were morphologically related to targets. The results are interpreted within a bimodal hierarchical model of word recognition in which morphological effects arise through the interplay of sublexical (morpho-orthographic) and supralexical (morpho-semantic) representations. The word stimuli from this study may be downloaded as supplemental materials from http://mc.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental.
Diependaele
Kevin
K
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. kevin.diependaele@ugent.be
Sandra
Dominiek
D
Grainger
Jonathan
J
D001288:Attention; D006801:Humans; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D013067:Speech Perception
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