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Malay Lexicon Project 2: Morphology in Malay word recognition
Mirrah Maziyah Mohamed1, Melvin J Yap2, Qian Wen Chee2
1Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. mmoha87@uwo.ca.
Memory & Cognition
|June 15, 2022
Summary
This study reveals key factors influencing visual word recognition in Malay, an agglutinative language. Root family size, prefix length, and word frequency significantly impact processing speed.
Area of Science:
- Psycholinguistics
- Computational Linguistics
- Cognitive Science
Background:
- Visual word recognition research has focused on few languages, neglecting morphologically rich ones like Malay.
- Malay, an Austronesian language, features an agglutinative system with numerous morphemes per word.
Purpose of the Study:
- To enhance the Malay Lexicon Project with detailed morphological information.
- To identify morphological variables affecting visual word recognition in Malay.
- To investigate interactions between word frequency and morphological factors.
Main Methods:
- Augmented the Malay Lexicon Project with morpheme breakdown and properties.
- Collected lexical decision data for Malay words with single prefixes and suffixes.
- Utilized Generalized Additive Mixed Models (GAMM) to analyze response times (RT).
Main Results:
- Identified three morphological variables (root family size, prefix length, prefix percentage of more frequent words) and two lexical variables predicting RT.
- Found root family size facilitates recognition, while prefix length and prefix frequency inhibit it.
- Observed a significant interaction: root family size's effect is stronger for low-frequency words.
Conclusions:
- Morphological complexity significantly influences visual word recognition in Malay.
- Findings contribute to understanding morphological processing in agglutinative languages.
- This research provides a foundation for universal theories of morphological processing.
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