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Native speakers like affixes, L2 speakers like letters?

  • In an overt visual priming experiment, we investigate the role of orthography in native (L1) and non-native (L2) processing of German morphologically complex words. We compare priming effects for inflected and derived morphologically related prime-target pairs versus otherwise matched, purely orthographically related pairs. The results show morphological priming effects in both the L1 and L2 group, with no significant difference between inflection and derivation. However, L2 speakers, but not L1 speakers, also showed significant priming for orthographically related pairs. Our results support the claim that L2 speakers focus more on surface-level information such as orthography during visual word recognition. This can cause orthographic priming effects in morphologically related prime-target pairs, which may conceal L1-L2 differences in morphological processing.

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Author details:Laura Anna CiaccioORCiD, Gunnar JacobORCiD
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226482
ISSN:1932-6203
Pubmed ID:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31869374
Title of parent work (English):PLoS one
Subtitle (English):An overt visual priming study investigating the role of orthography in L2 morphological processing
Publisher:PLoS
Place of publishing:San Fransisco
Publication type:Article
Language:English
Date of first publication:2019/12/23
Publication year:2019
Release date:2020/05/07
Volume:14
Issue:12
Number of pages:20
Funding institution:Humboldt professorship grant; Potsdam Research Institute; University of Potsdam
Funding institution:Universität Potsdam
Funding number:PA 2019_134
Organizational units:Zentrale und wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen / Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism (PRIM)
DDC classification:4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik
Peer review:Referiert
Publishing method:Open Access
Open Access / Gold Open-Access
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License (German):License LogoCC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
External remark:Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe ; 169
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