The dynamics of morphological processing in developing readers: A cross-linguistic masked priming study.

Elisabeth Beyersmann1, Petroula Mousikou2, Sascha Schroeder2

  • 1Department of Cognitive Science and Macquarie Centre for Reading, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.

Summary

Children develop morphological processing skills over time. While embedded word activation is common in both German and French, complex morphological processing like morpho-orthographic and morpho-semantic effects appear language-specific in early development.

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