Zargar Ehsan Shafiee, Witzel Naoko
Department of Linguistics and TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 76019, USA.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2017 Feb;46(1):125-140. doi: 10.1007/s10936-016-9423-5.
This study reports findings from two experiments testing whether a transposed-letter (TL) priming effect can be obtained when the transposition occurs across morphological boundaries. Previous studies have primarily tested derivationally complex words or compound words, but have not examined a more rule-based and productive morphological structure, i.e., inflectionally complex words, using masked priming. Experiment 1 tested TL priming with nonword primes and inflected targets (FOCUSING). Nonword primes were formed by transposing letters either within the root morpheme (fcousing) or across two morphemes (focuisng). Experiment 2 used the same nonword primes, but had the root words as targets (FOCUS). Both experiments showed similar TL priming effects for within-morpheme and across-boundary positions, indicating that morphological decomposition takes place only after letter positions in a word have been assigned. This finding provides additional evidence to previous research testing derived and compound words showing TL priming regardless of the position of transposition.
本研究报告了两项实验的结果，这两项实验测试了当字母换位跨越形态边界时，是否能获得换位字母（TL）启动效应。先前的研究主要测试派生词或复合词，但尚未使用掩蔽启动来研究一种更基于规则且富有生成性的形态结构，即曲折变化复杂的词。实验1用非词启动项和曲折变化的目标词（FOCUSING）测试了TL启动效应。非词启动项是通过在词根语素内（fcousing）或跨两个语素（focuisng）换位字母形成的。实验2使用相同的非词启动项，但以词根词作为目标词（FOCUS）。两项实验在语素内和跨边界位置均显示出相似的TL启动效应，表明形态分解仅在单词中的字母位置被确定之后才会发生。这一发现为先前关于派生词和复合词的研究提供了额外证据，这些研究表明无论换位位置如何，都存在TL启动效应。
