A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä
A morphological effect obtains for isolated words but not for words in sentence context
Tekijät: Hyona J, Vainio S
Kustantaja: PSYCHOLOGY PRESS
Julkaisuvuosi: 2002
Journal: European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Lehden akronyymi: EUR J COGN PSYCHOL
Vuosikerta: 14
Numero: 4
Aloitussivu: 417
Lopetussivu: 433
Sivujen määrä: 17
ISSN: 0954-1446
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440143000131
Tiivistelmä
The effect of morphological complexity on word identification was studied in three experiments conducted in Finnish, employing the same set of target nouns. In Experiment 1, the target nouns were presented in isolation, and lexical decision times were employed as lexical access measures. In Experiments 2 and 3, the same words were embedded in sentence contexts, where both the inflected and non-inflected forms were equally plausible, and eye fixation patterns (Exp. 2) and lexical decision latencies (Exp. 3) were recorded. The experiment with isolated words replicated previous lexical decision studies by showing more effortful processing for inflected than monomorphemic nouns. However, this morphological complexity effect did not generalise to the context experiments; fixation durations and response latencies were highly similar for inflected and monomorphemic words. It is suggested that, at least for the type of inflected nouns studied, the morphological effect observed for isolated words may derive from the syntactic and/or semantic level and not necessarily from the lexical level, as previously assumed.
The effect of morphological complexity on word identification was studied in three experiments conducted in Finnish, employing the same set of target nouns. In Experiment 1, the target nouns were presented in isolation, and lexical decision times were employed as lexical access measures. In Experiments 2 and 3, the same words were embedded in sentence contexts, where both the inflected and non-inflected forms were equally plausible, and eye fixation patterns (Exp. 2) and lexical decision latencies (Exp. 3) were recorded. The experiment with isolated words replicated previous lexical decision studies by showing more effortful processing for inflected than monomorphemic nouns. However, this morphological complexity effect did not generalise to the context experiments; fixation durations and response latencies were highly similar for inflected and monomorphemic words. It is suggested that, at least for the type of inflected nouns studied, the morphological effect observed for isolated words may derive from the syntactic and/or semantic level and not necessarily from the lexical level, as previously assumed.
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