The role of semantic and phonological factors in word recognition: An ERP cross-modal priming study of derivational morphology

被引:23
作者
Kielar, Aneta [1 ]
Joanisse, Marc F. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Western Ontario, Dept Psychol, London, ON N6A 5C2, Canada
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
Event related potentials (ERP); N400; priming; Derivational morphology; DISTRIBUTED CONNECTIONIST APPROACH; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS; COMPLEX WORDS; LEXICAL REPRESENTATION; BRAIN POTENTIALS; ORTHOGRAPHIC SEGMENTATION; FORMAL RELATIONSHIPS; VERB MORPHOLOGY; MENTAL LEXICON; PREFIXED WORDS;
D O I
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.11.027
中图分类号
B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Theories of morphological processing differ on the issue of how lexical and grammatical information are stored and accessed. A key point of contention is whether complex forms are decomposed during recognition (e.g., establish + ment). compared to forms that cannot be analyzed into constituent morphemes (e.g., apartment). In the present study, we examined these issues with respect to English derivational morphology by measuring ERP responses during a cross-modal priming lexical decision task. ERP priming effects for semantically and phonologically transparent derived words (government-govern) were compared to those of semantically opaque derived words (apartment-apart) as well as "quasi-regular" items that represent intermediate cases of morphological transparency (dresser-dress). Additional conditions independently manipulated semantic and phonological relatedness in non-derived words (semantics: couch-sofa; phonology: panel-pan). The degree of N400 ERP priming to morphological forms varied depending on the amount of semantic and phonological overlap between word types, rather than respecting a bivariate distinction between derived and opaque forms. Moreover, these effects could not be accounted for by semantic or phonological relatedness alone. The findings support the theory that morphological relatedness is graded rather than absolute, and depend on the joint contribution of form and meaning overlap. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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