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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Skilled adult readers process suffixes as position-specific units, identified at word endings but not beginnings.
  • Previous research suggests suffix identification is automatic and location-dependent in skilled readers.
  • The developmental trajectory of this position-specific suffix coding in children remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if letter search tasks reveal position-specific suffix coding in children and adults.
  • To investigate whether suffix processing differences emerge during reading development.
  • To assess the replicability of initial findings on position-specific suffix identification.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments using a letter search task with Italian pseudowords were conducted.
  • Participants (3rd-graders, 5th-graders, adults) detected target letters in suffixes and non-suffixes at word beginnings and endings.
  • A Bayesian approach was used for combined analysis to assess processing differences.

Main Results:

  • Initial experiment suggested developmental differences in position-specific suffix processing.
  • Replication experiment failed to reproduce these effects.
  • Combined analysis indicated no significant processing differences between suffixes and non-suffixes in the letter search task.

Conclusions:

  • Letter search tasks may not be suitable for investigating morpheme processing.
  • The study highlights challenges in replicating findings and discusses the replication crisis in psychology.
  • Findings suggest that suffix processing may not be inherently position-specific in the tested tasks, especially during development.