Beyond decomposition: Processing zero-derivations in English visual word recognition
Four experiments investigate the effects of covert morphological complexity during visual word recognition. Zero-derivations occur in English in which a change of word class occurs without any change in surface form (e.g., a boat-to boat; to soak-a soak). Boat is object-derived and is a basic noun (...
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| description | Four experiments investigate the effects of covert morphological complexity during visual word recognition. Zero-derivations occur in English in which a change of word class occurs without any change in surface form (e.g., a boat-to boat; to soak-a soak). Boat is object-derived and is a basic noun (N), whereas soak is action-derived and is a basic verb (V). As the suffix {-ing} is only attached to verbs, deriving boating from its base, requires two steps, boat(N) > boat(V) > boating(V), while soaking can be derived in one step from soak(V). Experiments 1 to 3 used masked priming at different prime durations to test matched sets of one- and two-step verbs for morphological (soaking-SOAK) and semantic priming (jolting-SOAK). Experiment 4 employed a delayed-priming paradigm in which the full verb forms (soaking and boating) were primed by noun and verb phrases (a soak/to soak, a boat/to boat). In both paradigms, different morphological priming patterns were observed for one-step and two-step verbs, demonstrating that morphological processing cannot be reduced to surface form-based segmentation. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:45907ae3-a661-46d3-93b5-9b985d71a07c2022-03-26T15:08:30ZBeyond decomposition: Processing zero-derivations in English visual word recognitionJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:45907ae3-a661-46d3-93b5-9b985d71a07cEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordElsevier2018Wheeldon, LSchuster, SPliatsikas, CMalpass, DLahiri, AFour experiments investigate the effects of covert morphological complexity during visual word recognition. Zero-derivations occur in English in which a change of word class occurs without any change in surface form (e.g., a boat-to boat; to soak-a soak). Boat is object-derived and is a basic noun (N), whereas soak is action-derived and is a basic verb (V). As the suffix {-ing} is only attached to verbs, deriving boating from its base, requires two steps, boat(N) > boat(V) > boating(V), while soaking can be derived in one step from soak(V). Experiments 1 to 3 used masked priming at different prime durations to test matched sets of one- and two-step verbs for morphological (soaking-SOAK) and semantic priming (jolting-SOAK). Experiment 4 employed a delayed-priming paradigm in which the full verb forms (soaking and boating) were primed by noun and verb phrases (a soak/to soak, a boat/to boat). In both paradigms, different morphological priming patterns were observed for one-step and two-step verbs, demonstrating that morphological processing cannot be reduced to surface form-based segmentation. |
| spellingShingle | Wheeldon, L Schuster, S Pliatsikas, C Malpass, D Lahiri, A Beyond decomposition: Processing zero-derivations in English visual word recognition |
| title | Beyond decomposition: Processing zero-derivations in English visual word recognition |
| title_full | Beyond decomposition: Processing zero-derivations in English visual word recognition |
| title_fullStr | Beyond decomposition: Processing zero-derivations in English visual word recognition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beyond decomposition: Processing zero-derivations in English visual word recognition |
| title_short | Beyond decomposition: Processing zero-derivations in English visual word recognition |
| title_sort | beyond decomposition processing zero derivations in english visual word recognition |
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