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Suffixed word lexical representations in French.
Authors:
MEUNIER, F., MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D. & FORD, M.
Reference:
In A. Cutler, J.M. McQueen & R. Zondervan (Eds), Proceedings of the Workshop on Spoken Word Access Processes, 31 - 34, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Year of publication:
2000
CBU number:
4178
Abstract:
Using a cross-modal priming paradigm combined with a lexical decision task we investigated the morphological priming effect between two suffixed words depending on the status of the stem they were derived from. We contrasted three types of stem: free stems, verbal free stems and bound stems. Our results showed that, in French, suffixed words derived from the same stem prime each other and that this morphological effect is not modified by the type of stem these words are derived from. We confirmed that these effects were not due to semantic relationship between primes and targets by conducting a mask priming experiment with the same linguistic material. The results obtained in French contrast with those observed in English and therefore highlight the major role of the structure of languages on the way words are lexically accessed and represented.
