Deutsch Avital, Velan Hadas, Michaly Tamar
a Seymour Fox School of Education , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Jerusalem , Israel.
b Levinsky College of Education , Tel-Aviv , Israel.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2016 Nov 11:1-9. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1250788.
Complex words in Hebrew are composed of two non-concatenated morphemes: a consonantal root embedded in a nominal or verbal word-pattern morpho-phonological unit made up of vowels or vowels and consonants. Research on written-word recognition has revealed a robust effect of the roots and the verbal-patterns, but not of the nominal-patterns, on word recognition. These findings suggest that the Hebrew lexicon is organized and accessed via roots. We explored the hypothesis that the absence of a nominal-pattern effect reflects methodological limitations of the experimental paradigms used in previous studies. Specifically, the potential facilitative effect induced by a shared nominal-pattern was counteracted by an interference effect induced by the competition between the roots of two words derived from different roots but with the same nominal-pattern. In the current study, a fast-priming paradigm for sentence reading and a "delayed-letters" procedure were used to isolate the initial effect of nominal-patterns on lexical access. The results, based on eye-fixation latency, demonstrated a facilitatory effect induced by nominal-pattern primes relative to orthographic control primes when presented for 33 or 42 ms. The results are discussed in relation to the role of the word-pattern as an organizing principle of the Hebrew lexicon, together with the roots.
一个辅音词根嵌入在由元音或元音与辅音组成的名词或动词词形形态音位单元中。对书面单词识别的研究表明，词根和动词词形对单词识别有显著影响，而名词词形则没有。这些发现表明，希伯来语词汇是通过词根来组织和检索的。我们探讨了这样一种假设，即名词词形效应的缺失反映了先前研究中使用的实验范式的方法学局限性。具体来说，由共享名词词形引起的潜在促进效应被来自不同词根但具有相同名词词形的两个单词的词根之间的竞争所引起的干扰效应抵消。在当前的研究中，使用了一种用于句子阅读的快速启动范式和一种“延迟字母”程序来分离名词词形对词汇检索的初始影响。基于眼动注视潜伏期的结果表明，当呈现33毫秒或42毫秒时，相对于正字法控制启动词，名词词形启动词会产生促进效应。我们结合词形作为希伯来语词汇组织原则的作用以及词根来讨论这些结果。
