Surviving blind decomposition: A distributional analysis of the time-course of complex word recognition.

ABSTRACT: The current study addresses a discrepancy in the psycholinguistic literature about the chronology of information processing during the visual recognition of morphologically complex words. Form-then-meaning accounts of complex word recognition claim that morphemes are processed as units of form prior to any influence of their meanings, whereas form-and-meaning models posit that recognition of complex word forms involves the simultaneous access of morphological and semantic information. The study reported here addresses this theoretical discrepancy by applying a nonparametric distributional technique of survival analysis (Reingold & Sheridan, 2014) to 2 behavioral measures of complex word processing. Across 7 experiments reported here, this technique is employed to estimate the

SUBMITTER: Schmidtke D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5659973 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature