Abstraction and perceptual individuation in primed word identification are modulated by distortion and repetition: A dissociation

Sciama, Sonia C.; Dowker, Ann

doi:10.1080/09658210701757305

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“…These two classes of models are not mutually exclusive (Wheeldon & Monsell, 1992;, and modern accounts often assume that the lexicon needs to include a combination of abstract representations and information about frequency of variants and morphological components (e.g. Hay & Baayen, 2005;Connine & Pinnow, 2006;Sciama & Dowker, 2007;Pierrehumbert, 2016;Zuraw et al, 2021). Even if normal lexical access does involve episodic representations, some sort of abstraction presumably needs to also be available, because compensation for phonological alternation occurs even in pseudowords -for example, in French, where obstruents can assimilate in voicing to a following obstruent, listeners not only interpret e.g.…”

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Long-lag identity priming in the absence of long-lag morphological priming: evidence from Mandarin tone alternation

Politzer-Ahles¹,

Pan²,

Lin³

et al. 2023

Glossa Psycholinguistics

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The present study tested whether listeners hearing one form of a morpheme activate other forms of the same morpheme. Listeners performed lexical decisions while hearing Mandarin monosyllables; crucially, critical targets could be primed by related syllables that occurred 18–52 trials earlier (long-lag priming). The use of long-lag priming ensures that any facilitation effects are due to morphological relatedness and not to semantic or form relationships, which do not prime lexical decisions at long lags. Across three experiments (total N = 458), we consistently found that lexical decisions were primed when the same pronunciation of a morpheme occurred as prime and target (e.g., shiL – shiL) but were not primed when two different variants of the same morpheme occurred as prime and target (e.g., shiR – shiL, where both of these syllables are potential pronunciations of the same morpheme). In other words, we observed identity priming but not morphological priming, unlike other long-lag priming experiments, which almost invariably observe intramodal morphological priming if they test it. This surprising finding suggests that there are boundary conditions on the elicitation of long-lag morphological priming effects.

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