Haskins Publications

Number	898
Year	1992
Drawer	16
Entry Date	07/15/1998
Authors	Feldman, Laurie B. and Andjelkovic, Darinka.
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Publication	Orthography, Phonology, Morphology, and Meaning, edited by R. Frost and L. Katz. Elsevier Science Publishers, B.V. pp. 343-361.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0898.pdf
Abstract	One of the most refined techniques for investigating morphological processing in word recognition is the variant of the lexical decision task known as repetition priming (Stanners, Neiser, Hernon & Hall 1979). It provides a primary source of evidence, according to Henderson (1989), of facilitation between words formed from the same morpheme (i.e., morphological relatives). Generally, target (second presentation) decision latencies and err rates are reduced in the context of morphologically related primes (first presentation). Words related to the target (e.g., HEALS) can be forms that are unaffixed (e.g., HEAL), inflected (e.g., HEALED) or derived (e.g., HEALER) in either the same or different modalities (e.g., print or speech) and they can be separated by as many as fifty intervening items. Effects of morphological relatedness have been observed in the lexical decision task across a variety of languages including Serbo-Croatian (Feldman & Fowler, 1987) and Hebrew (Bentin & Feldman, 1990), English (Fowler, Napps, & Feldman, 1985; Feldman, 1991) and American Sign Language (Hanson & Feldman, 1991; see also Emmorey, 1989).
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