Obligatory decomposition in reading prefixed words
Year: 2006
Type: reference-entry
Abstract: The reported experiment examines the impact of stem frequency on lexical decision responses to prefixed words. Both when the nonword distractors had nonsense stems (e.g., recodge) and real-word stems (e.g., relaugh), words with high frequency stems (e.g., unreal) were recognized more quickly than words with low frequency stems (e.g., refuel) when matched on surface frequency. This was taken as evidence that a whole-word representation exists for prefixed words, but that activation of this representation is always mediated by a representation of the stem, unlike the claims of a Dual Pathways model.
Source: The Mental Lexicon
DOI: 10.1075/ml.1.2.02taf
Authors: Marcus Taft, Sam Ardasinski
Institution: UNSW Sydney
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2035675189