Morphological facilitation for regular and irregular verb formations in native and non-native speakers: LIttle evidence for two distinct mechanisms*
| Number | 1567 |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Drawer | 27 |
| Entry Date | 01/21/2010 |
| Authors | Feldman, L.B., Kostić, A., Basnight-Brown, D.M., Durdević, D.F. & Pastizzo, M.J. |
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| Publication | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, doi: 10.1017/S13667289099990459 |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1567.pdf |
| Abstract | The authors compared performance on two variants of the primed lexical decision task to investigate morphological processing in native and non-native speakers of English. They examined patters of facilitation on present tense targets. Primes were regular (billed-BILL_ past tense formations and two types of irregular past tense forms that varied on preservation of target length (Fell-FALL; taught-TEACH). When a forward mask preceded the prime (Exp. 1), language and prime type interacted. Native speakers showed reliable regular and irregular length preserved facilitation relative to orthographic controls. Non-native speakers’ latencies after morphological and orthographic primes did not differ reliably except for regulars. Under cross-modal conditions (Exp. 2), language and prime type interacted. Native but not non-native speakers showed inhibition following orthographically similar primes. Collectively, reliable facilitation for regulars and patterns across verb type and task provided little support for a processing dichotomy (decomposition, non-combinatorial association) based on inflectional regularity in either native or non-native speakers of English. |
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