Elsherif Mahmoud Medhat, Catling Jon C, Frisson Steven
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, 52 Pritchatts Road, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
Mem Cognit. 2020 May;48(4):511-525. doi: 10.3758/s13421-019-00986-6.
Previous research has shown that early-acquired words are produced faster than late-acquired words. Juhasz and colleagues (Juhasz, Lai & Woodcock, Behavior Research Methods, 47 (4), 1004-1019, 2015; Juhasz, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1-10, 2018) argue that the Age-of-Acquisition (AoA) loci for complex words, specifically compound words, are found at the lexical/semantic level. In the current study, two experiments were conducted to evaluate this claim and investigate the influence of AoA in reading compound words aloud. In Experiment 1, 48 participants completed a word naming task. Using general linear mixed modelling, we found that the age at which the compound word was learned significantly affected the naming latencies beyond the other psycholinguistic properties measured. The second experiment required 48 participants to name the compound word when the two morphemes were presented with a space in-between (combinatorial naming, e.g. air plane). We found that the age at which the compound word was learned, as well as the AoA of the individual morphemes that formed the compound word, significantly influenced combinatorial naming latency. These findings are discussed in relation to theories of the AoA in language processing.
先前的研究表明，早期习得的单词比晚期习得的单词产出速度更快。尤哈斯及其同事（尤哈斯、赖和伍德科克，《行为研究方法》，47(4)，1004 - 1019，2015；尤哈斯，《实验心理学季刊》，1 - 10，2018）认为，复杂单词，特别是复合词的习得年龄（AoA）位点存在于词汇/语义层面。在本研究中，进行了两项实验来评估这一说法，并调查习得年龄对大声朗读复合词的影响。在实验1中，48名参与者完成了一项单词命名任务。使用一般线性混合模型，我们发现复合词的习得年龄对命名潜伏期有显著影响，超出了所测量的其他心理语言学特性。第二个实验要求48名参与者在两个语素之间有空格的情况下命名复合词（组合命名，例如air plane）。我们发现复合词的习得年龄以及构成复合词的各个语素的习得年龄对组合命名潜伏期有显著影响。这些发现将结合语言处理中的习得年龄理论进行讨论。
