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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Morphology

Background:

  • Psycholinguistic research often focuses on word stems, with less attention to functional affixes.
  • Theories differ on whether affixes are representational units equivalent to stems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the processing of derivational affixes in complex words.
  • To compare affix processing with stem, form, and semantic priming effects.
  • To evaluate the representational status of affixes in psycholinguistic models.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted eight visual lexical decision studies.
  • Examined priming effects (affix, stem, identity, form, semantic) at short and long lags.
  • Analyzed reaction times and accuracy in word recognition tasks.

Main Results:

  • Found robust and consistent affix priming effects up to 33-item lags.
  • Observed weaker long-lag stem priming compared to previous studies.
  • Semantic and form priming effects for affixes were not significant.

Conclusions:

  • Results support the view that affixes function as morphemes, on par with stems.
  • The findings suggest affixes possess representational content in word processing.
  • Potential asymmetry in stem vs. affix priming may relate to memory salience.