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We will conduct a masked affix priming experiment to investigate whether affixes that can vary in linear position are extracted and activated in a position-independent manner during visual word processing. Specifically, we will be looking at three types of morphologically complex words in Tagalog: -in- infixed words (e.g., t-in-awag ‘called’), ni- prefixed words (e.g., ni-lason ‘poisoned’), where the ni- prefix and -in- infix are allomorphs of the same underlying morpheme, and -in- infixed words with glottal stop initial stems (e.g., ʔ-in-ayos ‘fixed’), which are pronounced as, e.g. ʔ-in-ayos, but represented orthographically as in-ayos because ʔ is unwritten in Tagalog. In other words, -in- orthographically appears as a prefix for glottal stop initial stems. In a previous experiment, we have investigated whether masked affix priming effects are obtained for prime-target pairs that share an infix or prefix in the same position. We found robust priming effects for prime-target pairs that share the same -in- infix and -um- infix while no such effects were found for pairs that share the ni- prefix. More importantly, we found the largest magnitude of priming effects (20ms) for prime-target pairs sharing -in- when it orthographically appears as a prefix, while a similar magnitude of priming effects (15ms) was found for those sharing the -in- and -um- infixes when they orthographically appear as an infix. No significant priming effects were found for prime-target pairs that share non-morphological orthographic overlap. In the current experiment, we include prime-target pairs with the -in- infix appearing orthographically in the same prefix position to replicate this finding and provide a baseline priming effect against which to compare the other manipulations. We also include an orthographic overlap condition as a control. In this experiment, we build on the results of our previous experiment to ask: • Will a prime containing an infix that appears orthographically as a prefix prime a target containing the same infix in an orthographically infixed position (e.g., inayos-TINALI fixed-TIED) and vice versa (e.g., tinali-INAYOS)? • Will a prime containing an infix prime a target containing an allomorph of that infix as a prefix (e.g., tinawag-NILASON called-POISONED)? • Will a prime containing an infix that appears orthographically as a prefix prime a target containing an allomorph of that infix as a prefix (e.g., inambag-NILASON contributed-POISONED)? |
