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Amenta, Simona; Marelli, Marco; Crepaldi, Davide – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
In this eye-tracking study, we investigated how semantics inform morphological analysis at the early stages of visual word identification in sentence reading. We exploited a feature of several derived Italian words, that is, that they can be read in a "morphologically transparent" way or in a "morphologically opaque" way…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Semantics, Morphology (Languages), Word Recognition
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Crepaldi, Davide; Rastle, Kathleen; Davis, Colin J.; Lupker, Stephen J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
There is broad consensus that printed complex words are identified on the basis of their constituent morphemes. This fact raises the issue of how the word identification system codes for morpheme position, hence allowing it to distinguish between words like "overhang" and "hangover", and to recognize that "preheat" is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Morphemes, Identification, Proximity