Asymmetric Morphological Priming Among Inflected and Derived Verbs and Nouns in Greek

The present study examined differences between inflectional and derivational morphology using Greek nouns and verbs with masked priming (with both short and long stimulus onset asynchrony) and long-lag priming. A lexical decision task to inflected noun and verb targets was used to test whether their...

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Autores principales:	Sofia Loui, Athanassios Protopapas, Eleni Orfanidou
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	lexical representation lexical decision modern Greek language inflectional morphology derivational morphology grammatical class Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b41a59b687574c8b910baeb099ce79002021-11-17T12:52:36ZAsymmetric Morphological Priming Among Inflected and Derived Verbs and Nouns in Greek1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.658189https://doaj.org/article/b41a59b687574c8b910baeb099ce79002021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.658189/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078The present study examined differences between inflectional and derivational morphology using Greek nouns and verbs with masked priming (with both short and long stimulus onset asynchrony) and long-lag priming. A lexical decision task to inflected noun and verb targets was used to test whether their processing is differentially facilitated by prior presentation of their stem in words of the same grammatical class (inflectional morphology) or of a different grammatical class (derivational morphology). Differences in semantics, syntactic information, and morphological complexity between inflected and derived word pairs (both nouns and verbs) were minimized by unusually tight control of stimuli as permitted by Greek morphology. Results showed that morphological relations affected processing of morphologically complex Greek words (nouns and verbs) across prime durations (50–250ms) as well as when items intervened between primes and targets. In two of the four experiments (Experiments 1 and 3), inflectionally related primes produced significantly greater effects than derivationally related primes suggesting differences in processing inflectional versus derivational morphological relations, which may disappear when processing is less dependent on semantic effects (Experiment 4). Priming effects differed for verb vs. noun targets with long SOA priming (Experiment 3), consistent with processing differences between complex words of different grammatical class (nouns and verbs) when semantic effects are maximized. Taken together, results demonstrate that inflectional and derivational relations differentially affect processing complex words of different grammatical class (nouns and verbs). This finding indicates that distinctions of morphological relation (inflectional vs. derivational) are not of the same kind as distinctions of grammatical class (nouns vs. verbs). Asymmetric differences among inflected and derived verbs and nouns seem to depend on semantic effects and/or processing demands modulating priming effects very early in lexical processing of morphologically complex written words, consistent with models of lexical processing positing early access to morphological structure and early influence of semantics.Sofia LouiAthanassios ProtopapasEleni OrfanidouFrontiers Media S.A.articlelexical representationlexical decisionmodern Greek languageinflectional morphologyderivational morphologygrammatical classPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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spellingShingle	lexical representation lexical decision modern Greek language inflectional morphology derivational morphology grammatical class Psychology BF1-990 Sofia Loui Athanassios Protopapas Eleni Orfanidou Asymmetric Morphological Priming Among Inflected and Derived Verbs and Nouns in Greek
description	The present study examined differences between inflectional and derivational morphology using Greek nouns and verbs with masked priming (with both short and long stimulus onset asynchrony) and long-lag priming. A lexical decision task to inflected noun and verb targets was used to test whether their processing is differentially facilitated by prior presentation of their stem in words of the same grammatical class (inflectional morphology) or of a different grammatical class (derivational morphology). Differences in semantics, syntactic information, and morphological complexity between inflected and derived word pairs (both nouns and verbs) were minimized by unusually tight control of stimuli as permitted by Greek morphology. Results showed that morphological relations affected processing of morphologically complex Greek words (nouns and verbs) across prime durations (50–250ms) as well as when items intervened between primes and targets. In two of the four experiments (Experiments 1 and 3), inflectionally related primes produced significantly greater effects than derivationally related primes suggesting differences in processing inflectional versus derivational morphological relations, which may disappear when processing is less dependent on semantic effects (Experiment 4). Priming effects differed for verb vs. noun targets with long SOA priming (Experiment 3), consistent with processing differences between complex words of different grammatical class (nouns and verbs) when semantic effects are maximized. Taken together, results demonstrate that inflectional and derivational relations differentially affect processing complex words of different grammatical class (nouns and verbs). This finding indicates that distinctions of morphological relation (inflectional vs. derivational) are not of the same kind as distinctions of grammatical class (nouns vs. verbs). Asymmetric differences among inflected and derived verbs and nouns seem to depend on semantic effects and/or processing demands modulating priming effects very early in lexical processing of morphologically complex written words, consistent with models of lexical processing positing early access to morphological structure and early influence of semantics.
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author	Sofia Loui Athanassios Protopapas Eleni Orfanidou
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title	Asymmetric Morphological Priming Among Inflected and Derived Verbs and Nouns in Greek
title_short	Asymmetric Morphological Priming Among Inflected and Derived Verbs and Nouns in Greek
title_full	Asymmetric Morphological Priming Among Inflected and Derived Verbs and Nouns in Greek
title_fullStr	Asymmetric Morphological Priming Among Inflected and Derived Verbs and Nouns in Greek
title_full_unstemmed	Asymmetric Morphological Priming Among Inflected and Derived Verbs and Nouns in Greek
title_sort	asymmetric morphological priming among inflected and derived verbs and nouns in greek
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/b41a59b687574c8b910baeb099ce7900
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Asymmetric Morphological Priming Among Inflected and Derived Verbs and Nouns in Greek

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