TY  - JOUR
A1  - Felser, Claudia
A1  - Drummer, Janna-Deborah
T1  - Sensitivity to Crossover Constraints During Native and Non-native Pronoun Resolution
JF  - Journal of psycholinguistic research
N2  - We report the results from two experiments examining native and non-native German speakers’ sensitivity to crossover constraints on pronoun resolution. Our critical stimuli sentences contained personal pronouns in either strong (SCO) or weak crossover (WCO) configurations. Using eye-movement monitoring during reading and a gender-mismatch paradigm, Experiment 1 investigated whether a fronted wh-phrase would be considered as a potential antecedent for a pronoun intervening between the wh-phrase and its canonical position. Both native and non-native readers initially attempted coreference in WCO but not in SCO configurations, as evidenced by early gender-mismatch effects in our WCO conditions. Experiment 2 was an offline antecedent judgement task whose results mirrored the SCO/WCO asymmetry observed in our reading-time data. Taken together, our results show that the SCO constraint immediately restricts pronoun interpretation in both native and non-native comprehension, and further suggest that SCO and WCO constraints derive from different sources.
KW  - Strong crossover
KW  - Weak crossover
KW  - Pronoun resolution
KW  - Eye-movement monitoring
KW  - German
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-016-9465-8
SN  - 0090-6905
SN  - 1573-6555
VL  - 46
SP  - 771
EP  - 789
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nakano, Yoko
A1  - Ikemoto, Yu
A1  - Jacob, Gunnar
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - How Orthography Modulates Morphological Priming
BT  - Subliminal Kanji Activation in Japanese
JF  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - The current study investigates to what extent masked morphological priming is modulated by language-particular properties, specifically by its writing system. We present results from two masked priming experiments investigating the processing of complex Japanese words written in less common (moraic) scripts. In Experiment 1, participants performed lexical decisions on target verbs; these were preceded by primes which were either (i) a past-tense form of the same verb, (ii) a stem-related form with the epenthetic vowel -i, (iii) a semantically-related form, and (iv) a phonologically-related form. Significant priming effects were obtained for prime types (i), (ii), and (iii), but not for (iv). This pattern of results differs from previous findings on languages with alphabetic scripts, which found reliable masked priming effects for morphologically related prime/target pairs of type (i), but not for non-affixal and semantically-related primes of types (ii), and (iii). In Experiment 2, we measured priming effects for prime/target pairs which are neither morphologically, semantically, phonologically nor - as presented in their moraic scripts—orthographically related, but which—in their commonly written form—share the same kanji, which are logograms adopted from Chinese. The results showed a significant priming effect, with faster lexical-decision times for kanji-related prime/target pairs relative to unrelated ones. We conclude that affix-stripping is insufficient to account for masked morphological priming effects across languages, but that language-particular properties (in the case of Japanese, the writing system) affect the processing of (morphologically) complex words.
KW  - morphologically complex words
KW  - morpho-orthography
KW  - decompositon
KW  - Japanese
KW  - kanji
KW  - kana
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00316
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 7
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -