TY  - JOUR
A1  - Farhy, Yael
A1  - Verissimo, Joao Marques
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Do late bilinguals access pure morphology during word recognition?
BT  - a masked-priming study on Hebrew as a second language
JF  - Bilingualism : language and cognition
N2  - This study extends research on morphological processing in late bilinguals to a rarely examined language type, Semitic, by reporting results from a masked-priming experiment with 58 non-native, advanced, second-language (L2) speakers of Hebrew in comparison with native (L1) speakers. We took advantage of a case of ‘pure morphology’ in Hebrew, the so-called binyanim, which represent (essentially arbitrary) morphological classes for verbs. Our results revealed a non-native priming pattern for the L2 group, with root-priming effects restricted to non-finite prime words irrespective of binyanim type. We conclude that root extraction in L2 Hebrew word recognition is less sensitive to both morphological and morphosyntactic cues than in the L1, in line with the Shallow-Structure Hypothesis of L2 processing.
KW  - grammatical processing
KW  - morphology
KW  - behavioural measurements
KW  - healthy normal subjects
KW  - Hebrew
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918000032
SN  - 1366-7289
SN  - 1469-1841
VL  - 21
IS  - 5
SP  - 945
EP  - 951
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  -