title: Morphological Decomposition in Japanese De-adjectival Nominals: Masked and Overt Priming Evidence.
abstract: Whether morpheme-based processing extends to relatively unproductive derived words remains a matter of debate. Although whole-word storage and access has been proposed for some derived words, such as Japanese de-adjectival nominals with the unproductive (-mi) suffix (e.g., Hagiwara et al. in Language 75:739-763, 1999), Clahsen and Ikemoto (Ment Lex 7:147-182, 2012) found masked priming from de-adjectival nominals with productive (-sa) and unproductive (-mi) suffixes to their adjectivally-inflected base morpheme. Using masked and unmasked priming, we examine whether adjectivally-inflected base morpheme primes facilitate the processing of Japanese de-adjectival nominal targets with a productive or unproductive affix, including an orthographic-overlap condition and semantic relatedness measure that Clahsen and Ikemoto (2012) did not include. Our results replicate and extend Clahsen and Ikemoto (2012), revealing significant, statistically-equivalent morphological priming effects for -sa and -mi affixed targets, independent of orthographic and semantic relatednesss, suggesting that the processing of derived words with the unproductive -mi affix makes recourse to morpheme-level representations.
authors.affiliation: Neurolinguistics and Language Processing Laboratory, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas, 1541 Lilac Lane, 66044, Lawrence, KS, USA. fiorentino@ku.edu.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fiorentino
authors.affiliation: Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
authors.forename: Yuka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Naito-Billen
authors.affiliation: Developmental Psycholinguistics Laboratory, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
authors.forename: Utako
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Minai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010470:Perceptual Masking / Q000502:physiology*; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011932:Reading; D060865:Repetition Priming / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Japanese; Masked priming; Morphology; Productivity
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