Haskins Publications

Number	1346
Year	2004
Drawer	25
Entry Date	01/29/2008
Authors	Feldman, Laurie Beth, Soltano, Emily G., Pastizzo, Matthew J. and Francis, Sarah E.
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Publication	Brain and Language (2004) 90, pp.17- 30.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1346.pdf
Abstract	We examined the influence of semantic transparency on morphological facilitation in English in three lexical decision experiments. Decision latencies to visual targets (e.g., CASUALNESS) were faster after semantically transparent (e.g., CASUALLY) than semantically opaque (e.g., CASUALTY) primes whether primes were auditory and presented immediately before onset of the target (Experiment 1a) or visual with an stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) of 250ms (Experiment 1b). Latencies did not differ at an SOA of 48ms (Experiment 2) or with a forward mask at an SOA of 83ms (Experiment 3). Generally, effects of semantic transparency among morphological relatives were evident at long but not at short SOAs with visual targets, regardless of prime modality. Moreover, the difference in facilitation after opaque and transparent primes was graded and increased with family size of the base morpheme.
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