Feldman L B, Soltano E G
University at Albany, SUNY, NY 12222, USA.
Brain Lang. 1999;68(1-2):33-9. doi: 10.1006/brln.1999.2077.
Patterns of facilitation in three lexical decision studies reveal several properties of morphologically complex words that influence processing. In one study, effects of morphological (VOWED-VOW) similarity are contrasted with effects of either semantic (PLEDGE-VOW) or orthographic (VOWEL-VOW) similarity at two prime durations to show the distinctiveness of morphological processing. In a second study, we compare morphologically complex forms that are semantically transparent (CASUALLY-CASUALNESS) with opaque forms (CASUALTY-CASUALNESS) and show that opaque relatives are more similar to VOWEL-VOW type pairs than to transparent relatives. In the third study, we examine facilitation for complex targets (CALCULATION) preceded by prefixed (MISCALCULATE) and suffixed (CALCULATOR) relatives and show that the position of the base morpheme influences processing under cross-modal but not under purely visual presentation conditions. Taken collectively, under comparable presentation conditions, semantic transparency but not base morpheme position constrains morphological processing.
三项词汇判断研究中的促进模式揭示了影响加工的形态复杂词的几个特性。在一项研究中，在两个启动时长下，将形态（VOWED-VOW）相似性的影响与语义（PLEDGE-VOW）或正字法（VOWEL-VOW）相似性的影响进行对比，以显示形态加工的独特性。在第二项研究中，我们将语义透明的形态复杂形式（CASUALLY-CASUALNESS）与不透明形式（CASUALTY-CASUALNESS）进行比较，结果表明，不透明形式的词对与VOWEL-VOW类型的词对比与透明形式的词对更相似。在第三项研究中，我们考察了在复杂目标词（CALCULATION）之前出现前缀相关词（MISCALCULATE）和后缀相关词（CALCULATOR）时的促进作用，结果表明，在跨模态呈现条件下而非纯视觉呈现条件下，基础语素的位置会影响加工。总体而言，在可比的呈现条件下，语义透明度而非基础语素位置会限制形态加工。
