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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics

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  • Morphological effects in word recognition are crucial for understanding language processing.
  • Previous research has explored semantic transparency but yielded mixed results.
  • The flanker lexical decision paradigm offers a controlled method to study these effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To replicate and extend findings on the semantic transparency morphological effect.
  • To investigate the role of stem versus suffix flankers in lexical decision tasks.
  • To examine how orthographic and semantic factors influence morphological processing.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a flanker lexical decision paradigm with carefully selected target words.
  • Experiment 1: Used word stems as flankers (truly morphological, pseudomorphological, form-related).
  • Experiment 2: Employed short derivational suffixes as flankers.

Main Results:

  • Experiment 1 (stems): Demonstrated a general facilitative effect for related flankers, attributed to orthographic overlap.
  • Experiment 2 (suffixes): Revealed a significant inhibitory effect for both transparent and pseudomorphological conditions.
  • No significant effect was observed for the form-related condition in Experiment 2.

Conclusions:

  • Findings suggest that processing suffixes may involve competition among lexical candidates.
  • The cognitive demands of the task and item selection critically influence observed morphological effects.
  • Results contribute to refining current models of morphological processing in psycholinguistics.