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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Computational Linguistics

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  • Theories of multimorphemic word recognition suggest constituent representations are key.
  • Previous research indicates pseudoconstituents and constituents activate during masked priming.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether readers access semantic information of pseudoconstituents and constituents.
  • To differentiate between morphological and semantic activation in masked priming.

Main Methods:

  • Four experiments using masked priming with pseudocompounds and compounds.
  • Lexical decision tasks measuring response times to semantic associates.

Main Results:

  • Masked primes did not influence lexical decisions on semantic associates of pseudoconstituents.
  • Associates of the first constituent facilitated compound processing but not pseudocompound processing.
  • Findings suggest morphological, not semantic, activation dominates masked priming.

Conclusions:

  • Masked priming primarily activates the morphological form of word constituents.
  • Semantic information of constituents is less accessible under masked priming conditions.
  • This challenges theories relying solely on semantic activation for multimorphemic word recognition.