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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience of Language

Background:

  • Morphological processing research traditionally focused on single-word reading using lexical decision tasks.
  • Sentence reading studies often employed eye-tracking but used non-comparable experimental paradigms.
  • A gap existed in directly comparing morphological processing across single-word and sentence reading contexts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate morphological processing in German single-word reading using masked priming.
  • To examine morphological processing in German sentence reading using eye-tracking with fast priming.
  • To compare findings from both domains using identical morphological and non-morphological items.

Main Methods:

  • Employed masked priming paradigm for single-word reading (Experiments 1a, 1b, 3).
  • Utilized fast priming paradigm within eye-tracking for sentence reading (Experiment 2).
  • Used the same prefixed, suffixed, and non-morphological letter sequence items across all experiments.

Main Results:

  • Identical patterns of results were observed across all experiments.
  • Evidence for early processing of embedded stems was found.
  • Stem processing occurred irrespective of whether they were combined with prefixes, suffixes, or non-morphological sequences.

Conclusions:

  • Morphological processing of embedded stems is an early and consistent phenomenon in reading.
  • Findings suggest a unified mechanism for stem processing across single-word and sentence contexts.
  • Implications for reading research highlight the importance of comparable methodologies in psycholinguistics.