Late bilinguals see a scan in scanner AND in scandal: dissecting formal overlap from morphological priming in the processing of derived words
- Masked priming research with late (non-native) bilinguals has reported facilitation effects following morphologically derived prime words (scanner - scan). However, unlike for native speakers, there are suggestions that purely orthographic prime-target overlap (scandal - scan) also produces priming in non-native visual word recognition. Our study directly compares orthographically related and derived prime-target pairs. While native readers showed morphological but not formal overlap priming, the two prime types yielded the same magnitudes of facilitation for non-natives. We argue that early word recognition processes in a non-native language are more influenced by surface-form properties than in one's native language.
| Author details: | Vera HeyerGND, Harald ClahsenORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000662 |
| ISSN: | 1366-7289 |
| ISSN: | 1469-1841 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Bilingualism : language and cognition. |
| Publisher: | Cambridge Univ. Press |
| Place of publishing: | New York |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2014/11/10 |
| Publication year: | 2014 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
| Tag: | Masked priming; derivation; late bilinguals; orthographic overlap |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Number of pages: | 8 |
| First page: | 543 |
| Last Page: | 550 |
| Funding institution: | Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism (PRIM); Alexander von Humboldt Professorship |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
| External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 507 |
