Opacity, Transparency, and Morphological Priming: A Study of Prefixed Verbs in Dutch.

ABSTRACT: A basic question for the study of the mental lexicon is whether there are morphological representations and processes that are independent of phonology and semantics. According to a prominent tradition, morphological relatedness requires semantic transparency: semantically transparent words are related in meaning to their stems, while semantically opaque words are not. This study examines the question of morphological relatedness using intra-modal auditory priming by Dutch prefixed verbs. The key conditions involve semantically transparent prefixed primes (e.g., aanbieden 'offer', with the stem bieden, also 'offer') and opaque primes (e.g., verbieden 'forbid'). Results show robust facilitation for both transparent and opaque pairs; phonological (Experiment 1) and semantic (Experiment 2) co

SUBMITTER: Creemers A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7583677 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature