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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Masked stem priming is a well-established phenomenon in visual word recognition.
  • The role of suffix priming in word identification remains less understood.
  • Investigating morphological processing in visual word recognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if prime nonwords sharing a suffix with target words facilitate lexical decisions.
  • To ascertain whether suffix identification is position-specific.
  • To explore the timing of morpho-orthographic analysis in word recognition.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a masked priming paradigm with prime nonwords and target words.
  • Compared priming effects for same-suffix primes versus primes with substituted or unrelated endings.
  • Tested position specificity by reversing the order of stems and suffixes in prime nonwords.

Main Results:

  • Prime nonwords facilitated lexical decisions to target words sharing the same suffix.
  • This suffix priming effect was genuine and not due to orthographic overlap alone.
  • No suffix priming was observed when the suffix's position was reversed in the prime nonword.

Conclusions:

  • Suffix identification is position-specific, indicating that morphemes are processed in a fixed order.
  • Positional constraints on suffix processing operate early, likely at a prelexical morpho-orthographic analysis stage.
  • Findings constrain theoretical models of complex word identification, emphasizing early positional constraints.