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Publication Date: 2004
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Lexicality, Morphological Structure, and Semantic Transparency in the Processing of German Ver-Verbs: The Complementarity of On-Line and Off-Line Evidence
Schirmeier, Matthias K.; Derwing, Bruce L.; Libben, Gary
Brain and Language, v90 n1-3 p74-87 Jul-Sep 2004
Two types of experiments investigate the visual on-line and off-line processing of German ver-verbs (e.g., verbittern "to embitte"). In Experiments 1 and 2 (morphological priming), latency patterns revealed the existence of facilitation effects for the morphological conditions (BITTER-VERBITTERN and BITTERN-VERBITTERN) as compared to the neutral conditions (SAUBER-VERBITTERN and SAUBERN-VERBITTERN). In Experiments 3 and 4 (rating tasks) participants had to judge whether the target (VERBITTERN) ''comes from,'' ''contains a form of,'' or ''contains the meaning of'' the root (BITTER) or the root+en substring (BITTERN). Taken together, these studies revealed the combined influence of the three factors of lexicality (real word status), morphological structure, and semantic transparency.
Descriptors: Language Processing, Morphology (Languages), Semantics, German, Verbs, Sentence Structure, Morphemes, Grammar, Word Recognition, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
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