The role of morphological structure in the processing of complex forms: evidence from Setswana deverbative nouns

Kgolo, Naledi N.; Eisenbeiß, Sonja

doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1053813

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“…In the critical item set testing priming with prefixed words, we expected to find reliable priming effects for derived words, replicating previous results of masked priming experiments across different languages, including Setswana (Kgolo & Eisenbeiss, 2015). As regards priming effects for prefixed inflected words, we considered two conceivable outcomes.…”

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confidence: 74%

“…Masked priming experiments for prefixed words are, to our knowledge, only available for derived word forms, and these have revealed significant priming effects for different languages (Diependaele et al, 2009;Forster & Azuma, 2000;Grainger, Colé, & Segui, 1991;Heide, Lorenz, Meinunger, & Burchert, 2010;Kgolo & Eisenbeiss, 2015;Kim et al, 2015). However, at least one study (Kim et al, 2015) reports no priming with prefixed pseudo-words, which has been explained in terms of post-lexical decomposition of prefixed words, in contrast to suffixed words, which are supposed to be decomposed before lexical access.…”

Section: Previous Research On Inflectional Priming and Prefixationmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Despite the prominent role of prefixes in Bantu languages, there is only one psycholinguistic study that has investigated the processing of prefixed words in these languages. This is the study on Setswana by Kgolo and Eisenbeiss (2015) on prefixed derived nouns. The authors found priming effects with class-1 prefixed nominalizations (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nevertheless, there isapart from a few exceptions (e.g. Kgolo & Eisenbeiss, 2015;Saah & Goodluck, 1995) still very little experimental research on African languages. The current study contributes to closing this gap, by presenting new findings on morphological processing in Setswana, a Bantu language widely spoken in southern Africa.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Morphological decomposition in Bantu: a masked priming study on Setswana prefixation

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African languages have rarely been the subject of psycholinguistic experimentation. The current study employs a masked visual priming experiment to investigate morphological processing in a Bantu language, Setswana. Our study takes advantage of the rich system of prefixes in Bantu languages, which offers the opportunity of testing morphological priming effects from prefixed inflected words and directly comparing them to priming effects from prefixed derived words on the same targets. We found significant priming effects of similar magnitude for both prefixed inflected and derived word forms, which were clearly dissociable from prime-target relatedness in both meaning and (orthographic) form. These findings provide support for a (possibly universal) mechanism of morphological decomposition applied during early visual word recognition that segments both (prefixed) inflected and derived word forms into their morphological constituents. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: The Present Studysupporting

confidence: 74%

Section: Previous Research On Inflectional Priming and Prefixationmentioning

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“…near -nearness). Kgolo and Eisenbeiss (2015) take advantage of a phonological and orthographic property of Setswana, a Bantu language widely spoken in southern Africa, which allows them to distinguish contributions of phonology or orthography from those of morphology. While some roots can be found in the same form in their derivatives (as in the English example above), some Setswana noun classes use consonant mutation (e.g.…”

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Cross-linguistic psycholinguistics and its critical role in theory development: early beginnings and recent advances

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Harris

Jaeger

2015

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Recent years have seen a small but growing body of psycholinguistic research focused on typologically diverse languages. This represents an important development for the field, where theorising is still largely guided by the often implicit assumption of universality. This paper introduces a special issue of Language, Cognition and Neuroscience devoted to the topic of cross-linguistic and field-based approaches to the study of psycholinguistics. The papers in this issue draw on data from a variety of genetically and areally divergent languages, to address questions in the production and comprehension of phonology, morphology, words, and sentences. To contextualise these studies, we provide an overview of the field of cross-linguistic psycholinguistics, from its early beginnings to the present day, highlighting instances where cross-linguistic data have significantly contributed to psycholinguistic theorising

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Processing and production of affixes in Georgian and English: Testing a processing account of the suffixing preference

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2024

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The hypothesis that affixes following a stem are easier to process than ones preceding has not been tested in a straightforward manner in any language, as far as we know. Cutler, Hawkins & Gilligan (1985) and Hawkins & Cutler (1988) adduce some evidence that supports this hypothesis indirectly, but they do not conduct experiments to test it directly. They use this hypothesis to explain in part the suffixing preference. Some others, such as Asao (2015), continue to assume the correctness of the hypothesis. We do not aim to explain the suffixing preference at all but to test the hypothesis that affixes preceding the stem (informally, prefixes) disrupt the comprehension of a word more than affixes that follow (informally, suffixes) do. In this paper we test this hypothesis (henceforth the ‘Cutler--Hawkins hypothesis’) on Georgian, because it has a wide variety of prefixes and suffixes, and in a single experiment on English. In Georgian we test a prefix and a suffix that mark the person of the subject in a verb, a circumfix and a suffix that mark derivation in nouns, and a prefix and a suffix that form intransitive verbs (usually called ‘passives’ in Georgian). Across the set of experiments, we find little support for the Cutler--Hawkins hypothesis.

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The role of morphological structure in the processing of complex forms: evidence from Setswana deverbative nouns

Cited by 11 publications

References 48 publications

Morphological decomposition in Bantu: a masked priming study on Setswana prefixation

Morphological decomposition in Bantu: a masked priming study on Setswana prefixation

Cross-linguistic psycholinguistics and its critical role in theory development: early beginnings and recent advances

Processing and production of affixes in Georgian and English: Testing a processing account of the suffixing preference

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