Morphological Processing during Visual Word Recognition in Hebrew as a First and a Second Language

Autor/inn/en	Norman, Tal; Degani, Tamar; Peleg, Orna
Titel	Morphological Processing during Visual Word Recognition in Hebrew as a First and a Second Language
Quelle	In: Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 30 (2017) 1, S.69-85 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0922-4777
DOI	10.1007/s11145-016-9663-7
Schlagwörter	Morphology (Languages); Word Recognition; Semitic Languages; Morphemes; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Visual Perception + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Morphology; Morphologie; Worterkennung; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Morphem; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Abstract	The present study examined whether sublexical morphological processing takes place during visual word-recognition in Hebrew, and whether morphological decomposition of written words depends on lexical activation of the complete word. Furthermore, it examined whether morphological processing is similar when reading Hebrew as a first language (L1) or as a second language (L2), and whether L1's morphological background, Semitic or Indo-European, modulates morphological processing in L2 Hebrew (a Semitic language), among proficient readers. To reveal the sublexical processing of the Hebrew morphemes, the Root (R) and the Pattern (P), a lexical-decision task was conducted, in which all critical stimuli were non-word letter-strings manipulated to include or exclude real Hebrew morphemes. Different combinations of real (+) and pseudo (-) morphemes yielded four types of non-words (+R+P; +R-P; -R+P, -R-P). Three groups of proficient Hebrew readers were tested: L1 Hebrew, L1 English-L2 Hebrew, and L1 Arabic-L2 Hebrew. Results demonstrated significant differences in latency and accuracy of responses to the four morphological conditions, indicating that sublexical morphological processing occurs during visual word-recognition of morphologically structured letter-strings in Hebrew. Importantly, the activation of real Hebrew morphemes occurred in non-word stimuli, indicating that morphological processing in Hebrew is separable from lexical activation. Moreover, the same pattern of results was observed in all three L1 groups, indicating that proficient L2 readers exhibit morphological processing strategies that are tuned to the L2 morphology, regardless of their L1 background. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01