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Semantic aspects of morphological processing: transparency effects in Serbian.

Laurie Beth Feldman1, Dragana Barac-Cikoja, Aleksandar Kostić

  • 1State University of New York, Albany, USA. lf503@albany.edu

Memory & Cognition
|August 20, 2002
PubMed
Summary

Semantic transparency aids morphological processing at longer prime presentation times, but not at shorter ones. This suggests processing time limits semantic contributions in word recognition.

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Morphological facilitation, where related word forms speed up recognition, is a key area in psycholinguistics.
  • The role of semantic transparency (how clearly the meaning of a derived word is related to its base) in this process is debated.
  • Previous research has not fully elucidated how processing time influences semantic contributions to morphological effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the contribution of semantic transparency to morphological facilitation.
  • To examine how different stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) affect semantic processing during morphological priming.
  • To test whether semantic effects are consistent across varying processing durations.

Main Methods:

  • A visual lexical decision task was employed using Serbian language materials.

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  • Participants responded to target words presented in Roman script.
  • Prime words, related morphologically and/or semantically, were presented in either Roman or Cyrillic script at two SOAs (48 msec and 250 msec).

    • Main Results:

    • At a long SOA (250 msec), inflectionally related primes yielded the most facilitation, followed by semantically transparent derived primes, and then semantically opaque derived primes.
    • At a short SOA (48 msec), no difference in facilitation was observed between semantically transparent and opaque derived primes; both were slower than inflectionally related primes.
    • Alphabet-alternating conditions (prime in Cyrillic, target in Roman) showed overall greater facilitation but maintained the same pattern.

    Conclusions:

    • The contribution of semantics to morphological processing is dependent on available processing time.
    • Restricted processing duration limits the influence of semantic transparency on morphological facilitation.
    • Findings challenge theories proposing a task-invariant semantic criterion for lexical decomposition.