Feldman Laurie Beth, Soltano Emily G, Pastizzo Matthew J, Francis Sarah E
University of Albany, State University of New York, 12222, USA.
Brain Lang. 2004 Jul-Sep;90(1-3):17-30. doi: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00416-4.
We examined the influence of semantic transparency on morphological facilitation in English in three lexical decision experiments. Decision latencies to visual targets (e.g., CASUALNESS) were faster after semantically transparent (e.g., CASUALLY) than semantically opaque (e.g., CASUALTY) primes whether primes were auditory and presented immediately before onset of the target (Experiment 1a) or visual with an stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) of 250 ms (Experiment 1b). Latencies did not differ at an SOA of 48 ms (Experiment 2) or with a forward mask at an SOA of 83 ms (Experiment 3). Generally, effects of semantic transparency among morphological relatives were evident at long but not at short SOAs with visual targets, regardless of prime modality. Moreover, the difference in facilitation after opaque and transparent primes was graded and increased with family size of the base morpheme.
我们在三项词汇判断实验中研究了语义透明度对英语形态促进作用的影响。无论是听觉启动词并在目标词出现前立即呈现(实验1a),还是视觉启动词且刺激呈现间隔(SOA)为250毫秒(实验1b),语义透明的启动词(如CASUALLY)之后对视觉目标词(如CASUALNESS)的判断潜伏期都比语义不透明的启动词(如CASUALTY)之后更快。在SOA为48毫秒时(实验2)或在SOA为83毫秒且有前向掩蔽时(实验3),潜伏期没有差异。一般来说,无论启动词的形式如何,对于视觉目标词,形态相关词之间语义透明度的影响在较长的SOA时明显,而在较短的SOA时不明显。此外,不透明和透明启动词之后促进作用的差异是渐变的,并且随着基础语素的词族规模增大而增加。