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Bridgers, Franca Ferrari; Kacinik, Natalie – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The majority of words in most languages consist of derived poly-morphemic words but a cross-linguistic review of the literature (Amenta and Crepaldi in Front Psychol 3:232-243, 2012) shows a contradictory picture with respect to how such words are represented and processed. The current study examined the effects of linearity and structural…
Descriptors: Italian, Word Recognition, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics
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Havas, Viktoria; Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni; Clahsen, Harald – Brain and Language, 2012
This study investigates brain potentials to derived word forms in Spanish. Two experiments were performed on derived nominals that differ in terms of their productivity and semantic properties but are otherwise similar, an acceptability judgment task and a reading experiment using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in which correctly and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphemes, Spanish, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Wu, Shu-Ling – Language Learning, 2011
The present study adopted a cognitive linguistic framework--Talmy's (1985, 1991, 2000) typological classification of motion events--to investigate how second-language (L2) Chinese learners come to express motion events in a targetlike manner. Fifty-five U.S. university students and 20 native speakers of Chinese participated in the study. A…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Motion, Native Speakers
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Meunier, Fanny; Seigneuric, Alix; Spinelli, Elsa – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
In three experiments we explored the mental representation of morphologically complex words in French. Subjects were asked to perform a gender decision task on morphologically complex words that were of the same gender as their base or not. We found that gender decisions were made more slowly for morphologically complex words made from a base with…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphemes, Decision Making, Cognitive Processes
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Chen, Jenn-Yeu; Chen, Train-Min – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2007
Speaking a word can be started faster when all the words in a given block share the initial portion (e.g., syllable) than when they do not (known as the form preparation effect). Two experiments employed the task to examine the role of morphemes in Chinese word production. In Experiment 1, the disyllabic target words were monomorphemic or…
Descriptors: Syllables, Morphemes, Cognitive Processes, Chinese
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Dunabeitia, Jon Andoni; Peream, Manuel; Carreiras, Manuel – Cognition, 2007
When does morphological decomposition occur in visual word recognition? An increasing body of evidence suggests the presence of early morphological processing. The present work investigates this issue via an orthographic similarity manipulation. Three masked priming lexical decision experiments were conducted to examine the transposed-letter…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Word Recognition, Morphology (Languages), Cognitive Processes