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The time-course of morphological, phonological and semantic processes in reading Modern Standard Arabic.
Authors:
BOUDELAA, S. & MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D.
Reference:
Proceedings of the Twenty Third Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Edinburgh, Scotland, pp 138-143, 2001.
Year of publication:
2001
CBU number:
5186
Abstract:
We investigate deverbal noun and verb morphology in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), using two masked priming experiments in which the morphological, orthographic and semantic relationship between prime and targets are varied in four SOA conditions (32 ms, 48 ms, 64 ms, and 80 ms). Results show that early in the visual processing of MSA deverbal nouns and verbs, the role played by morphological structure (word patterns and roots), is significantly different from that played by orthographic and semantic factors. Additionally, while word pattern effects are transient and overlap with root morpheme effects only in the early stages of processing, effects of the root are reliably present throughout the recognition process.
