Auditory morphological processing: Evidence from phonological priming

Bacovcin, Hezekiah Akiva; Davies, Amy Goodwin; Wilder, Robert J.; Embick, David

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2017.03.011

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“…This has also to be considered in the interpretation of the present findings. However, several studies presenting spoken prime words used comparable timing as in the present study and reported priming effects (Holcomb and Neville ( 1990 ) SOA = 1,420–1,850 ms, ISI = 1,150 ms; Voyer and Myles ( 2017 ) SOA = 800–1,000 ms, ISI = 50–250 ms; Kim and Sumner ( 2017 ) SOA = not indicated, ISI = 100 ms; Bacovcin et al ( 2017 ) SOA = not indicated, ISI = 400–600 ms). Holcomb and Neville ( 1990 ) even reported stronger priming effects for auditory (SOA 1,420–1,850 ms) than visual prime words (SOA 1,550 ms), which had even longer SOA.…”

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Relation Between Mathematical Performance, Math Anxiety, and Affective Priming in Children With and Without Developmental Dyscalculia

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Many children show negative emotions related to mathematics and some even develop mathematics anxiety. The present study focused on the relation between negative emotions and arithmetical performance in children with and without developmental dyscalculia (DD) using an affective priming task. Previous findings suggested that arithmetic performance is influenced if an affective prime precedes the presentation of an arithmetic problem. In children with DD specifically, responses to arithmetic operations are supposed to be facilitated by both negative and mathematics-related primes (=negative math priming effect).We investigated mathematical performance, math anxiety, and the domain-general abilities of 172 primary school children (76 with DD and 96 controls). All participants also underwent an affective priming task which consisted of the decision whether a simple arithmetic operation (addition or subtraction) that was preceded by a prime (positive/negative/neutral or mathematics-related) was true or false. Our findings did not reveal a negative math priming effect in children with DD. Furthermore, when considering accuracy levels, gender, or math anxiety, the negative math priming effect could not be replicated. However, children with DD showed more math anxiety when explicitly assessed by a specific math anxiety interview and showed lower mathematical performance compared to controls. Moreover, math anxiety was equally present in boys and girls, even in the earliest stages of schooling, and interfered negatively with performance. In conclusion, mathematics is often associated with negative emotions that can be manifested in specific math anxiety, particularly in children with DD. Importantly, present findings suggest that in the assessed age group, it is more reliable to judge math anxiety and investigate its effects on mathematical performance explicitly by adequate questionnaires than by an affective math priming task.

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Relation Between Mathematical Performance, Math Anxiety, and Affective Priming in Children With and Without Developmental Dyscalculia

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“…Reaction time was our response variable. The fixed factors were condition (morphological, non-morphological and control), type (whether the elements in the pair were same or different), and duration (the duration, in milliseconds, of the second nonword in each pair, see Bacovcin et al 2017; Post et al 2008, for a similar procedure). We centered the continuous variable “duration” to minimize collinearity between predictors.…”

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Sensitivity to Inflectional Morphemes in the Absence of Meaning: Evidence from a Novel Task

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Stojanovik

Riddell

et al. 2019

J Psycholinguist Res

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A number of studies in different languages have shown that speakers may be sensitive to the presence of inflectional morphology in the absence of verb meaning (Caramazza et al. in Cognition 28(3):297–332, 1988 ; Clahsen in Behav Brain Sci 22(06):991–1013, 1999 ; Post et al. in Cognition 109(1):1–17, 2008 ). In this study, sensitivity to inflectional morphemes was tested in a purposely developed task with English-like nonwords. Native speakers of English were presented with pairs of nonwords and were asked to judge whether the two nonwords in each pair were the same or different. Each pair was composed either of the same nonword repeated twice, or of two slightly different nonwords. The nonwords were created taking advantage of a specific morphophonological property of English, which is that regular inflectional morphemes agree in voicing with the ending of the stem. Using stems ending in /l/, thus, we created: (1) nonwords ending in potential inflectional morphemes, vɔld, (2) nonwords without inflectional morphemes, vɔlt, and (3) a phonological control condition, vɔlb. Our new task endorses some strengths presented in previous work. As in Post et al. ( 2008 ) the task accounts for the importance of phonological cues to morphological processing. In addition, as in Caramazza et al. ( 1988 ) and contrary to Post et al. ( 2008 ), the task never presents bare-stems, making it unlikely that the participants would be aware of the manipulation performed. Our results are in line with Caramazza et al. ( 1988 ), Clahsen ( 1999 ) and Post et al. ( 2008 ), and offer further evidence that morphologically inflected nonwords take longer to be discriminated compared to uninflected nonwords.

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“…Though usually appearing in Austronesian, Austroasiatic and several Native American languages such as Tagalog, Khmer and Malay (Ultan, 1975;Moravcsik, 2000;Halle, 2001;Goudswaard, 2004;Wilson, 2014;Bacovcin & Freeman, 2016;Harizanov, 2017), infixation may also appear in languages such as English (7a-c) as a special and easily identifiable morphological process in that a morpheme is placed in the middle of a word (McCarthy, 1982;Yu, 2007Yu, , 2008Yu, , 2015. Regarding (7a-c), Yu (2007) claims that the expletives -bloody-, -fuckin-and -goddamninterrupt the bases, which turn into meaningless parts after infixation.…”

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Does Turkish Have Infixes? Why not?

BATURAY MERAL

2023

Korkut Ata Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi

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Compared to suffixation and prefixation, infixation is an uncommon morphological process in which a bound morpheme is inserted into a base. Most of the grammatical infixes are accepted as false infixes in the literature since they are originally either prefixes or suffixes but they surface as infixes due to some phonological reasons. However, there are also true infixes, which come with language games, disguises and iterative infixing ludlings. In the present study, following Yu (2007), we argue that Turkish has true infixation in iterative ludlings known as Kuş Dili (the Bird Language). Accordingly, we have three basic claims: (i) The true infixes in Turkish has -Vg- pattern not -gV-, contrary to the previous ludling observations. (ii) The iterative infix -Vg- interrupts the base preceding and copying every source vowel from right-to-left not from left-to-right, as opposed to the previous accounts. (iii) The Turkish iterative infixes have a fixed (unchanging) phonological template (NO) in which there is no way of branching. Our -Vg- pattern analysis and templatic account can explain why long vowels are shortened and why the coda consonant is displaced in the copied form. Accordingly, since there is no possibility for branching of the rhyme or nucleus on the infix template, only the vowel content is copied from the source nucleus to the infix, not the vowel length or coda consonant. Note that our -Vg- infixation pattern also finds empirical support from various languages such as Basque and Tagalog, which are also argued to have -VC- infixal pattern in their ludlings. As a result, we argue that the fixed template analysis for Turkish iterative infixes minimizes the cognitive burden since all one can do is limited to the template (no complex operations in the system).

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Auditory morphological processing: Evidence from phonological priming

Cited by 14 publications

References 21 publications

Relation Between Mathematical Performance, Math Anxiety, and Affective Priming in Children With and Without Developmental Dyscalculia

Relation Between Mathematical Performance, Math Anxiety, and Affective Priming in Children With and Without Developmental Dyscalculia

Sensitivity to Inflectional Morphemes in the Absence of Meaning: Evidence from a Novel Task

Does Turkish Have Infixes? Why not?

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