TY - JOUR
T1 - Masked constituent priming of English compounds in native and non-native speakers
AU - González Alonso, Jorge
AU - Baquero Castellanos, Silvia
AU - Müller, Oliver
PY - 2016/9/13
Y1 - 2016/9/13
N2 - © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.The present research explores the degree of morphological structure of compound words in the native and non-native lexicons, and provides additional data on the access to these representations. Native and non-native speakers (L1 Spanish) of English were tested using a lexical decision task with masked priming of the compound’s constituents in isolation, including two orthographic conditions to control for a potential orthographic locus of effects. Both groups displayed reliable priming effects, unmediated by semantics, for the morphological but not the orthographic conditions as compared to an unrelated baseline. Results contribute further evidence of morphological structure in the lexicon of native speakers, and suggest that lexical representation and access in a second language are qualitatively comparable at relatively advanced levels of proficiency.
AB - © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.The present research explores the degree of morphological structure of compound words in the native and non-native lexicons, and provides additional data on the access to these representations. Native and non-native speakers (L1 Spanish) of English were tested using a lexical decision task with masked priming of the compound’s constituents in isolation, including two orthographic conditions to control for a potential orthographic locus of effects. Both groups displayed reliable priming effects, unmediated by semantics, for the morphological but not the orthographic conditions as compared to an unrelated baseline. Results contribute further evidence of morphological structure in the lexicon of native speakers, and suggest that lexical representation and access in a second language are qualitatively comparable at relatively advanced levels of proficiency.
U2 - 10.1080/23273798.2016.1179770
DO - 10.1080/23273798.2016.1179770
M3 - Article
SN - 2327-3798
VL - 31
SP - 1038
EP - 1054
JO - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
JF - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
IS - 8
ER -