A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Long-lag morphological priming and inflectional paradigm size effects in Estonian and Finnish text reading
Authors: Lõo, Kaidi; Bertram, Raymond; Kuperman, Victor
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publishing place: AMSTERDAM
Publication year: 2024
Journal: Mental Lexicon
Journal name in source: The Mental Lexicon
Journal acronym: MENT LEX
Volume: 19
Issue: 2
First page : 253
Last page: 284
Number of pages: 32
ISSN: 1871-1340
eISSN: 1871-1375
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.24035.loo
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.24035.loo
Morphological priming and paradigm size effects have been established in single word reading studies, however, morphological priming effects in longer texts have not been observed, and, to the best of our knowledge, paradigmatic effects in text reading have not yet been examined. The current study utilized the Multilingual Eye-Tracking Corpus MECO (Siegelman et al., 2022) to explore paradigmatic and morphological priming effects during text reading in Estonian and Finnish, two morphologically rich Finno-Ugric languages. The results showed clear inflectional paradigm size effects for Estonian during text reading in several eye movement measures, but not for Finnish. This may be linked to the support from the inflectional paradigm being semantically more beneficial to the reader in Estonian than in Finnish. The current study also showed clear long-lag inflectional priming effects in text reading, unlike what was observed in prior studies in Dutch, English, and Spanish. This study is thus the first to show that inflectional priming can extend beyond word or sentence level and suggest that inflectional variants of a particular word in Estonian and Finnish get and remain activated even when text context is present.
Funding information in the publication:
This research was funded by Estonian Research Council grant number PSG743 (L & otilde;o, PI), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnered Research Training Grant ,895-2016-1 008, ( Libben, PI), the Insight Grant 435-2021-0657(Kuperman, PI), and the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2; Kuperman, PI).
