Haskins Publications

Number	742
Year	1990
Drawer	13
Entry Date	11/12/1999
Authors	Bentin, S., & Feldman, L.
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Publication	The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 42A, 693- 711.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0742.pdf
Abstract	Investigated the effect of morphological repetition at lag 0 and at lag 15 on lexical decision in Hebrew with 3 types of relation between prime and target. The 3 conditions were semantic-plus-morphological, pure morphological, and semantic priming. Ss were 96 undergraduates who were native speakers of Hebrew. The pure semantic relationship produced a significant facilitation at lag 0 that disappeared completely at lag 15. The pure morphological relation produced significant facilitation at lag 0 that was not attenuated at lag 15. When prime and target were related, the facilitation at lag 0 was similiar to semantic priming, whereas at lag 15 it was similiar to the pure morphological effect. Morphological repetition probably facilitates the retrieval of lexical information necessary for lexical decisions.
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