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Constituent Processing in Compound and Pseudocompound Words
Theories of multimorphemic word recognition generally posit that constituent representations are involved in accessing the whole multimorphemic word. Gagné et al. (2018) found that pseudoconstituents and constituents become available when processing pseudocompound and compound masked primes (e.g., s...
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Published in: | Canadian journal of experimental psychology 2023-06, Vol.77 (2), p.98-114 |
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Main Authors: | , , , |
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Language: | English |
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Summary: | Theories of multimorphemic word recognition generally posit that constituent representations are involved in accessing the whole multimorphemic word. Gagné et al. (2018) found that pseudoconstituents and constituents become available when processing pseudocompound and compound masked primes (e.g., sea is activated in season and seabird). Across four experiments, we examine whether readers access the semantic information of such pseudoconstituents and constituents. Experiments 1 and 2 show that masked pseudocompound and compound primes do not influence lexical decision responses to semantic associates of their pseudoconstituents or constituents (e.g., seabird and season do not influence processing of ocean, an associate of sea). Experiments 3 and 4 show that an associate of the first constituent does not influence processing of the pseudocompound but does facilitate processing of the compound (e.g., ocean facilitates processing of seabird but not of season). While compounds have been found to be sensitive to the activation of their constituents via semantic priming (e.g., El-Bialy et al., 2013; Sandra, 1990), our findings suggest that primarily morphological, rather than semantic, activation of the constituents occurs in a masked priming paradigm.
Les théories de la reconnaissance des mots « multimorphémiques » postulent généralement que l'accès au mot à morphèmes multiples tout entier passe par la représentation de ses composants. Gagné et coll. (2018) ont conclu que les faux composants et les composants deviennent accessibles au moment de traiter les amorces sémantiques masquées de faux mots composés et de mots composés (p. ex., le morphème sea (mer) est activé dans les mots seabird (oiseau de mer) et season (saison). À travers quatre expériences, nous avons évalué si les lecteurs accédaient à l'information sémantique de tels faux-composants et composants. Les expériences 1 et 2 ont démontré que les amorces masquées de faux mots composés et de mots composés n'influent pas sur les réponses de décision lexicale aux éléments sémantiques connexes de leurs faux composants ou composants (p. ex., seabird et season n'influent pas sur le traitement du mot ocean (océan), un élément sémantique connexe du mot sea. Les expériences 3 et 4 démontrent qu'un élément sémantique connexe du premier composant n'influe pas sur le traitement du faux mot composé. Plutôt, il facilite le traitement du mot composé (p. ex., ocean facilite le traitement de seabird, mais pas de season |
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ISSN: | 1196-1961 1878-7290 |
DOI: | 10.1037/cep0000287 |