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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Adult masked priming studies suggest a "blind" form-based morpho-orthographic segmentation mechanism.
  • This mechanism decomposes words with apparent morphological complexity regardless of true structure.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if developing readers exhibit structural morphological decomposition.
  • To compare morphological processing in adult and child readers.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a masked primed lexical decision design.
  • Compared truly suffixed (e.g., golden-GOLD), pseudosuffixed (e.g., mother-MOTH), and nonsuffixed (e.g., spinach-SPIN) prime-target pairs.
  • Tested adult readers and children in Year 3 and Year 5.

Main Results:

  • Adult readers showed priming effects for both true and pseudosuffixed primes.
  • Children (Year 3 and Year 5) only exhibited priming for truly suffixed pairs, not pseudosuffixed ones.
  • This indicates a developmental difference in morphological processing.

Conclusions:

  • Morpho-orthographic decomposition mechanisms are not fully automatized in early reading development.
  • Structural morphological decomposition emerges later in reading acquisition.
  • Developing readers may rely more on semantic or true morphological relationships.