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Taking the Book from the Bookshelf: Masked Constituent Priming Effects from Compound Words and Nonwords

Yvette Kezilas
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Max Coltheart
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Anne Castles
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Marcus Taft
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Jonathan Grainger

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Recent evidence from visual word recognition points to the important role of embedded words, suggesting that embedded words are activated independently of whether they are accompa-nied by an affix or a non-affix. The goal of the present research was to more closely examine the mechanisms involved in embedded word activation, particularly with respect to the “edge-alignedness” of the embedded word. We conducted two experiments that used masked priming in combination with lexical decision. In Experiment 1, monomorphemic target words were either preceded by a compound word prime (e.g., textbook-BOOK/textbook-TEXT), a compound-non-word prime (e.g., pilebook-BOOK/textpile-TEXT), a non-compound nonword prime (e.g., pimebook-BOOK/textpime-TEXT) or an unrelated prime (e.g., textjail-BOOK/jailbook-TEXT). The results revealed significant priming effects, not only in the compound word and compound-nonword conditions, but also in the non-compound nonword condition, suggesting that embedded words (e.g., book) were activated independently of whether they occurred in combination with a real morpheme (e.g., pilebook) or a non-morphemic constituent (e.g., pimebook). Priming in the com-pound word condition was greater than in the two nonword conditions, indicating that partici-pants benefited from the whole-word representation of real compound words. Constituent prim-ing occurred independently of whether the target word was the first or the second embedded constituent of the prime (e.g., textbook-BOOK vs. textbook-TEXT). In Experiment 2, significant priming effects were found for edge-aligned embedded constituents (e.g., pimebook-BOOK), but not for mid-embedded (e.g., pibookme-BOOK) or the outer-embedded constituents (e.g., bopimeok-BOOK), suggesting that edge-alignedness is a key factor determining the activation of embedded words.
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hal-01910880 , version 1 (02-11-2018)

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Elisabeth C Beyersmann, Yvette Kezilas, Max Coltheart, Anne Castles, Johannes C Ziegler, et al.. Taking the Book from the Bookshelf: Masked Constituent Priming Effects from Compound Words and Nonwords. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2018, 1 (1), ⟨10.5334/joc.11⟩. ⟨hal-01910880⟩
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