Is There a "Fete" in "Fetish"? Effects of Orthographic Opacity on Morpho-Orthographic Segmentation in Visual Word Recognition

Autor/inn/en	McCormick, Samantha F.; Rastle, Kathleen; Davis, Matthew H.
Titel	Is There a "Fete" in "Fetish"? Effects of Orthographic Opacity on Morpho-Orthographic Segmentation in Visual Word Recognition
Quelle	In: Journal of Memory and Language, 58 (2008) 2, S.307-326 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0749-596X
DOI	10.1016/j.jml.2007.05.006
Schlagwörter	Semantics; Word Recognition; Language Processing; Semiotics; Cognitive Processes; Morphology (Languages); Visual Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Semantik; Worterkennung; Sprachverarbeitung; Semiotik; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Morphology; Morphologie
Abstract	Recent research using masked priming has suggested that there is a form of morphological decomposition that is based solely on the appearance of morphological complexity and that operates independently of semantic information [Longtin, C.M., Segui, J., & Halle, P. A. (2003). Morphological priming without morphological relationship. "Language and Cognitive Processes, 18," 313-334; Rastle, K., Davis, M. H., & New, B. (2004). The broth in my brother's brothel: Morpho-orthographic segmentation in visual word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 1090-1098]. The research presented here asks whether this morpho-orthographic segmentation process breaks down for derived stimuli that cannot be segmented perfectly into their morphemic components. Three masked priming experiments are presented that demonstrate that morpho-orthographic segmentation is robust to a series of common orthographic alterations found in complex words, including (a) missing "e" (e.g., adorable-ADORE), (b) shared "e" (e.g., lover-LOVE), and (c) duplicated consonant (e.g., dropper-DROP). Our fourth experiment demonstrates that this robustness to orthographic disruption is preserved even in the absence of a semantic relationship between prime and target (e.g., committee-COMMIT; badger-BADGE; fetish-FETE). Results are discussed in terms of the nature of the orthographic representations used in skilled reading. (Author).
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