Haskins Publications

Number	533
Year	1985
Drawer	9
Entry Date	11/18/1999
Authors	Hanson, V. L., & Wilkenfeld, D.
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Publication	Language and Speech, Vol. 28, Part 3, 269-280.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0533.pdf
Abstract	Tested deaf and hearing readers' sensitivity to the morphological structure of English words by using a lexical decision (word/nonword classification) task. Target words were primed 10 trials earlier by themselves (e.g., think primed by think), by morphologically related words (e.g., think primed by thought), or by orthographically related words (e.g., think primed by thin). It was found that response times of both 14 hearing and 14 deaf college students to target words were facilitated when primed by themselves and also when primed by morphological relatives. Response times in neither group were facilitated with targets primed by orthographically related but morphologically unrelated words. Results indicate that deaf readers, like hearing readers, are sensitive to underlying morphophonological relationships among English words.
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