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Publication Date: 2016-Feb
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The Involvement of Morphological Information in the Memorization of Chinese Compound Words: Evidence from Memory Errors
Liu, Duo
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, v45 n1 p157-176 Feb 2016
The processing of morphological information during Chinese word memorization was investigated in the present study. Participants were asked to study words presented to them on a computer screen in the studying phase and then judge whether presented words were old or new in the test phase. In addition to parent words (i.e. the words studied in the study phase), the test phase also included conjunction lures (constructed out of morphemes in the parent words) and new words (constructed out of entirely new morphemes). Three kinds of words (i.e. subordinate compounds, coordinative compounds, and single-morpheme words) were involved. In both two experiments, performance on lures worsened when both parent words and lures were coordinative compounds, compared to the condition when both were subordinate compounds. The different performance between compounds with different compounding structures in the test phase suggests the involvement of morphological information in the memorization of Chinese compound words. The spreading activation theory for memory and the interactive activation model for the processing of morphologically complex words were referred to for interpreting the results.
Descriptors: Chinese, Morphology (Languages), Memorization, Morphemes, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Comparative Analysis, Error Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Language Research, Vocabulary, Cues, Task Analysis, Models
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