Towards a Constructional Approach of L2 Morphological Processing

Giraudo, Hélène; Maso, Serena Dal

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74394-3_21

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“…Indubitably, sublexical morphemes such as suffixes play a fundamental function in visual word identification. Behavioral evidence has extensively supported the role of morphemes in the recognition of complex words (e.g., Amenta & Crepaldi, 2012;Bonandrini et al, 2023;Giraudo & Voga, 2014;Rastle & Davis, 2008), including experiments where, similar to the present study, suffixes where presented in isolation and under tight visual conditions (masked priming;e.g., Andoni Dunabeitia et al, 2008). This was further corroborated by several neuroimaging studies (e.g., Beyersmann et al, 2021;Davis et al, 2004;Devlin et al, 2004;Gold and Rastle, 2007;Lavric et al, 2012;Lehtonen et al, 2011;Lewis et al, 2011;Pescuma et al, 2022; for a recent review, see Leminen et al, 2019).…”

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Selective Neural Entrainment Reveals Hierarchical Tuning to Linguistic Regularities in Reading

Rosa¹,

Vignali²,

D'Urso³

et al. 2023

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Reading is both a visual and a linguistic task, and as such it relies on both general-purpose, visual mechanisms and more abstract, meaning-oriented processes. Disentangling the roles of these resources is of paramount importance in reading research. The present study capitalizes on the coupling of Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation (FPVS; Rossion, 2014) and MEG recordings to address this issue and investigate the role of different kinds of visual and linguistic units in the visual word identification system. We compared strings of pseudo-characters (BACS; C. Vidal & Chetail, 2017); strings of consonants (e.g,. sfcl); readable, but unattested strings (e.g., amsi); frequent, but non-meaningful chunks (e.g., idge); suffixes (e.g., ment); and words (e.g., vibe); and looked for discrimination responses with a particular focus on the ventral, occipito-temporal regions. The results revealed sensitivity to alphabetic, readable, familiar and lexical stimuli. Interestingly, there was no discrimination between suffixes and equally frequent, but meaningless endings, thus highlighting a lack of sensitivity to semantics. Taken together, the data suggest that the visual word identification system, at least in its early processing stages, is particularly tuned to form-based regularities, most likely reflecting its reliance on general-purpose, statistical learning mechanisms that are a core feature of the visual system as implemented in the ventral stream.

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Selective Neural Entrainment Reveals Hierarchical Tuning to Linguistic Regularities in Reading

Rosa¹,

Vignali²,

D'Urso³

et al. 2023

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“…For instance, Diependaele, Dunabeitia, Morris, and Keuleers (2011), tested pair words with a derivational relationship, the outcome was priming effects for both groups of natives and non-natives. Dal Maso and Giraudo's (2014) work indicated that L2 speakers are sensitive to morphological markers as long as they acquire them. They found that rare affixes did not show priming in their L2 data while frequent and productive affixes were parallel between the L1 and L2 participants.…”

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Accessing Deverbal Nouns in L1 and L2 Arabic: A Masked-Priming Experiment

ALWAHEIDI,

CELE

2023

Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi

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The current study examines how non-native speakers process deverbal nouns of Arabic. Unlike Indo-European languages, the word-formation process in Arabic occurs in a discontinuous manner. The root morpheme (carrying the core semantic information) interlocks in the word pattern morpheme (which holds the phonological and morpho-syntactic information). Research on Arabic shows that Arabic native speakers decompose derived and inflected (deverbal nouns and verbs) complex words during lexical processing. Priming studies on word processing did not appear to have consistent findings on whether L2 speakers decompose or fully list the complex forms; Using a masked-priming experiment, this study examined whether native and non-native speakers of Arabic decompose derived words, particularly, deverbal nouns in real-time. We tested a group of L1 Turkish /L2 Arabic learners and L1 Arabic speakers on six experimental conditions in which the relationship between prime and target is either morphological, orthographic, or semantic. The results indicated priming effects in the morphological conditions for native speakers, but not for non-native speakers. This shows that native speakers decompose deverbal nouns into their word patterns and root morphemes whereas non-native speakers list them as whole forms during online processing. These findings support the claim that L1 and L2 use different strategies in real-time processing of derived words.

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“…Previous research on morphological processing has proved that decomposition is not a compulsory processing mechanism applicable to all lexical forms including real complex words, pseudo-morphological words, even nonwords (Giraudo & Dal Maso, 2018). Instead, it depends on the underlying morphological complexity (Pliatsikas et al, 2014) or the interplay of linguistic factors (Bertram et al, 1999).…”

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“…The issue of what factors may affect morphological processing has attracted considerable attention, yet existing findings are not consistent to draw a conclusion. Some studies have shown the effects of factors such as formal regularity (Masrai & Milton, 2015;Shi & Chen, 2014), semantic transparency (Marslen-Wilson et al, 1994;Wang & Zhang, 2013;Xu & Taft, 2015;Zhang, 2015Zhang, , 2016, affix productivity (Bertram et al, 1999;Dal Maso & Giraudo, 2014;Lu, 2003;Vannest et al, 2011;Clark, 2014), surface frequency (Dal Maso & Giraudo, 2014;Davies et al, 2016;MacLeod & Kampe, 1996;Masrai & Milton, 2015;Meunier & Segui, 1999), root frequency (Beauvillain, 1996;Yao et al, 2012), stem frequency (Giraudo et al, 2015), and base frequency (Taft, 2004;Xu & Taft, 2015). Productivity refers to the possibility that a word-formation pattern is used to create words.…”

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“…Despite various findings on factors involved in morphological processing, little research has been done on the basis of Construction Morphology (CxM, Booij, 2010), which is a better explanation of L2 processing mechanisms (Giraudo & Dal Maso, 2018). CxM, a usage-based theory, states that the formal and semantic similarities shared by a group of complex words can be explained by morphological constructions (Booij, 2012).…”

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Effects of Subjective Type Frequency and Phonetic Structure on L2 Morphological Processing: A Constructional Perspective

2024

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Little research has been conducted to investigate the effects of subjective type frequency and phonetic structure on morphological processing. From the perspective of construction, this study carried out two experiments to examine whether these two factors have impacts on the processing of derivatives by Chinese EFL learners. In Experiment 1, the masked priming paradigm produced facilitation effect for the prefixed words rather than the suffixed ones. However, participants with higher subjective type frequency of the target words did not differ significantly from their counterparts in response times (RTs). In Experiment 2, words whose phonetic structure is consistent with the morphological structure took significantly longer RTs than the inconsistent group and the monomorphemic words in the unprimed lexical decision task. These findings demonstrated that subjective type frequency may be a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the generalization of morphological constructions, while phonetic structure can affect the perceptual salience of affix, thus playing an important part in morphological decomposition.

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Towards a Constructional Approach of L2 Morphological Processing

Cited by 8 publications

References 69 publications

Selective Neural Entrainment Reveals Hierarchical Tuning to Linguistic Regularities in Reading

Selective Neural Entrainment Reveals Hierarchical Tuning to Linguistic Regularities in Reading

Accessing Deverbal Nouns in L1 and L2 Arabic: A Masked-Priming Experiment

Effects of Subjective Type Frequency and Phonetic Structure on L2 Morphological Processing: A Constructional Perspective

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