Fiorentino Robert, Naito-Billen Yuka, Minai Utako
Neurolinguistics and Language Processing Laboratory, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas, 1541 Lilac Lane, 66044, Lawrence, KS, USA.
Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2016 Jun;45(3):575-97. doi: 10.1007/s10936-015-9349-3.
Whether morpheme-based processing extends to relatively unproductive derived words remains a matter of debate. Although whole-word storage and access has been proposed for some derived words, such as Japanese de-adjectival nominals with the unproductive (-mi) suffix (e.g., Hagiwara et al. in Language 75:739-763, 1999), Clahsen and Ikemoto (Ment Lex 7:147-182, 2012) found masked priming from de-adjectival nominals with productive (-sa) and unproductive (-mi) suffixes to their adjectivally-inflected base morpheme. Using masked and unmasked priming, we examine whether adjectivally-inflected base morpheme primes facilitate the processing of Japanese de-adjectival nominal targets with a productive or unproductive affix, including an orthographic-overlap condition and semantic relatedness measure that Clahsen and Ikemoto (2012) did not include. Our results replicate and extend Clahsen and Ikemoto (2012), revealing significant, statistically-equivalent morphological priming effects for -sa and -mi affixed targets, independent of orthographic and semantic relatednesss, suggesting that the processing of derived words with the unproductive -mi affix makes recourse to morpheme-level representations.
基于语素的加工是否扩展到相对不常用的派生词仍然是一个有争议的问题。尽管有人提出对一些派生词进行整词存储和提取，比如带有不常用后缀（-mi）的日语形容词转成的名词（例如，萩原等人，《语言》75卷：739 - 763页，1999年），但克拉森和池本（《心理词库》7卷：147 - 182页，2012年）发现，从带有常用后缀（-sa）和不常用后缀（-mi）的形容词转成的名词到其形容词性屈折变化的基础语素存在掩蔽启动效应。我们使用掩蔽启动和非掩蔽启动，研究形容词性屈折变化的基础语素启动是否促进对带有常用或不常用词缀的日语形容词转成的名词目标的加工，包括克拉森和池本（2012年）未纳入的正字法重叠条件和语义相关性测量。我们的结果重复并扩展了克拉森和池本（2012年）的研究，揭示了对于带有 -sa 和 -mi 词缀的目标存在显著的、统计上等效的形态启动效应，且与正字法和语义相关性无关，这表明对带有不常用 -mi 词缀的派生词的加工求助于语素层面的表征。
