Morphological Priming Effects in L2 English Verbs for Japanese-English Bilinguals.

ABSTRACT: For native (L1) English readers, masked presentations of past-tense verb primes (e.g., fell and looked) produce faster lexical decision latencies to their present-tense targets (e.g., FALL and LOOK) than orthographically related (e.g., fill and loose) or unrelated (e.g., master and bank) primes. This facilitation observed with morphologically related prime-target pairs (morphological priming) is generally taken as evidence for strong connections based on morphological relationships in the L1 lexicon. It is unclear, however, if similar, morphologically based, connections develop in non-native (L2) lexicons. Several earlier studies with L2 English readers have reported mixed results. The present experiments examine whether past-tense verb primes (both regular and irregular verbs) significant

SUBMITTER: Wanner-Kawahara J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9366885 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature