Abstract
Future Morphology? Summary of Visual Word Identification Effects Draws Attention to Necessary Efforts in Understanding Morphological Processing
Highlights
Without repeating all effects, Amenta and Crepaldi propose that stem frequency, family size, word entropy, and the number of affix allomorphs are main determinants in visual word identification
In masked priming, morphological effects are comparable in magnitude for semantically transparent and opaque words
The authors suggest that these findings provide a basis for the evaluation of competing theories and, in doing so, to contribute to future theory development; in their own words, to construct an “allinclusive model of visual identification of morphologically complex words.”
Summary
Amenta and Crepaldi propose that stem frequency, family size, word entropy, and the number of affix allomorphs are main determinants in visual word identification. If stimuli are fully visible, morphological priming effects are only proposed for semantically related words, and inflectional priming yields greater effects than derivational priming. In masked priming, morphological effects are comparable in magnitude for semantically transparent and opaque words.
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