TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ciaccio, Laura Anna
A1  - Kgolo, Naledi
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Morphological decomposition in Bantu
BT  - a masked priming study on Setswana prefixation
JF  - Language, cognition and neuroscience
N2  - African languages have rarely been the subject of psycholinguistic experimentation. The current study employs a masked visual priming experiment to investigate morphological processing in a Bantu language, Setswana. Our study takes advantage of the rich system of prefixes in Bantu languages, which offers the opportunity of testing morphological priming effects from prefixed inflected words and directly comparing them to priming effects from prefixed derived words on the same targets. We found significant priming effects of similar magnitude for both prefixed inflected and derived word forms, which were clearly dissociable from prime-target relatedness in both meaning and (orthographic) form. These findings provide support for a (possibly universal) mechanism of morphological decomposition applied during early visual word recognition that segments both (prefixed) inflected and derived word forms into their morphological constituents.
KW  - prefixes
KW  - inflection
KW  - affix stripping
KW  - visual word recognition
KW  - African
KW  - languages
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2020.1722847
SN  - 2327-3798
SN  - 2327-3801
VL  - 35
IS  - 10
SP  - 1257
EP  - 1271
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Ciaccio, Laura Anna
A1  - Burchert, Frank
A1  - Semenza, Carlo
T1  - Derivational morphology in agrammatic aphasia
BT  - a comparison between prefixed and suffixed words
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Although a relatively large number of studies on acquired language impairments have tested the case of derivational morphology, none of these have specifically investigated whether there are differences in how prefixed and suffixed derived words are impaired. Based on linguistic and psycholinguistic considerations on prefixed and suffixed derived words, differences in how these two types of derivations are processed, and consequently impaired, are predicted. In the present study, we investigated the errors produced in reading aloud simple, prefixed, and suffixed words by three German individuals with agrammatic aphasia (NN, LG, SA). We found that, while NN and LG produced similar numbers of errors with prefixed and suffixed words, SA showed a selective impairment for prefixed words. Furthermore, NN and SA produced more errors specifically involving the affix with prefixed words than with suffixed words. We discuss our findings in terms of relative position of stem and affix in prefixed and suffixed words, as well as in terms of specific properties of prefixes and suffixes.
KW  - Broca’s aphasia
KW  - morphological decomposition
KW  - morphological errors
KW  - derivation
KW  - prefixes
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-473995
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 648
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ciaccio, Laura Anna
A1  - Burchert, Frank
A1  - Semenza, Carlo
T1  - Derivational morphology in agrammatic aphasia
BT  - a comparison between prefixed and suffixed words
JF  - Frontiers in Psychology
N2  - Although a relatively large number of studies on acquired language impairments have tested the case of derivational morphology, none of these have specifically investigated whether there are differences in how prefixed and suffixed derived words are impaired. Based on linguistic and psycholinguistic considerations on prefixed and suffixed derived words, differences in how these two types of derivations are processed, and consequently impaired, are predicted. In the present study, we investigated the errors produced in reading aloud simple, prefixed, and suffixed words by three German individuals with agrammatic aphasia (NN, LG, SA). We found that, while NN and LG produced similar numbers of errors with prefixed and suffixed words, SA showed a selective impairment for prefixed words. Furthermore, NN and SA produced more errors specifically involving the affix with prefixed words than with suffixed words. We discuss our findings in terms of relative position of stem and affix in prefixed and suffixed words, as well as in terms of specific properties of prefixes and suffixes.
KW  - Broca’s aphasia
KW  - morphological decomposition
KW  - morphological errors
KW  - derivation
KW  - prefixes
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01070
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 11
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -