A Reexamination of the Impact of Morphology on Transposed Character Priming Effects

Autor/inn/en	Yang, Huilan; Taikh, Alexander; Lupker, Stephen J.
Titel	A Reexamination of the Impact of Morphology on Transposed Character Priming Effects
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48 (2022) 6, S.785-797 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Taikh, Alexander)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0001119
Schlagwörter	Chinese; Morphology (Languages); Priming; Orthographic Symbols; Morphemes; Decision Making; Reading Processes; Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; Word Frequency; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? China; Chinesen; Morphology; Morphologie; Morphem; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Leseprozess; Ausland; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit
Abstract	Using two-character Chinese word targets in a masked priming lexical-decision task, Gu and colleagues (2015) demonstrated a significant transposed character (TC) priming effect. More importantly, the priming effect was the same size for single-morpheme words and multiple-morpheme words, suggesting that TC priming effects are not influenced by morphemic structure. In Chinese, there are, however, two types of single-morpheme words, single-morpheme simple words (e.g., [Chinese characters omitted] [similar to "practice" in English]) and single-morpheme complex words (e.g., [Chinese characters omitted] [similar to "carpet" in English in that both components are words themselves and, hence, when presented in transposed order, may activate morphological information reflecting the individual components rather than the word itself]), a contrast that Gu et al. did not examine. In Experiment 1, we replicated Gu et al.'s finding of equal TC priming effects for their single- and multiple-morpheme words, although our priming effects were noticeably smaller than theirs. In Experiment 2, we split the single-morpheme condition in order to examine the TC priming effects for single-morpheme simple words, single-morpheme complex words and multiple-morpheme words. The results showed that the single-morpheme complex words produced the smallest priming effect, indicating that transposed morphemes can influence masked priming in Chinese; however, apparently only in an inhibitory fashion. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01