TY - JOUR
T1 - Memory for affixes in a long-lag priming paradigm
AU - Gaston, Phoebe
AU - Stockall, Linnaea
AU - Van Wagenen, Sarah
AU - Marantz, Alec
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute Grant G1001 to AM. PG was also supported in part by NSF BCS-1749407 (Ellen Lau, PI) and NSF NRT training grant DGE-1449815 at the University of Maryland, and by NIH T32 DC017703 (Eigsti & Myers, PIs) at the University of Connecticut.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s).
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Psycholinguistic research on the processing of morphologically complex words has largely focused on debates about how/if lexical stems are recognized, stored, and retrieved. Comparatively little processing research has investigated similar issues for functional affixes. In Word or Lexeme Based Morphology (Aronoff 1994), affixes are not representational units on par with stems or roots. This view is in stark contrast to the claims of linguistic theories like Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993), which assign rich representational content to affixes. We conducted a series of eight visual lexical decision studies, evaluating effects of derivational affix priming along with stem priming, identity priming, form priming, and semantic priming at long and short lags. We find robust and consistent affix priming (but not semantic or form priming) with lags up to 33 items, supporting the position that affixes are morphemes, i.e., representational units on par with stems. Intriguingly, we find only weaker evidence for the long-lag stem priming effect found in other studies. We interpret this potential asymmetry in terms of the salience of different morphological contexts for recollection memory.
AB - Psycholinguistic research on the processing of morphologically complex words has largely focused on debates about how/if lexical stems are recognized, stored, and retrieved. Comparatively little processing research has investigated similar issues for functional affixes. In Word or Lexeme Based Morphology (Aronoff 1994), affixes are not representational units on par with stems or roots. This view is in stark contrast to the claims of linguistic theories like Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1993), which assign rich representational content to affixes. We conducted a series of eight visual lexical decision studies, evaluating effects of derivational affix priming along with stem priming, identity priming, form priming, and semantic priming at long and short lags. We find robust and consistent affix priming (but not semantic or form priming) with lags up to 33 items, supporting the position that affixes are morphemes, i.e., representational units on par with stems. Intriguingly, we find only weaker evidence for the long-lag stem priming effect found in other studies. We interpret this potential asymmetry in terms of the salience of different morphological contexts for recollection memory.
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U2 - 10.16995/glossa.5735
DO - 10.16995/glossa.5735
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85119500790
VL - 6
JO - Glossa
JF - Glossa
SN - 2397-1835
IS - 1
M1 - 118
ER -