Lexical embeddings produce interference when they are morphologically unrelated to the words in which they are contained: Evidence from eye movements
| Autor: | Barbara J. Juhasz, Kristin M. Weingartner, Keith Rayner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 24:179-188 |
| ISSN: | 2044-592X 2044-5911 |
| Popis: | Many words in the English language contain semantically and morphologically unrelated smaller words (e.g., room in groom). Recent findings indicate that a high frequency embedded word produces interference during visual word identification (e.g., Bowers, Davis, & Hanley, 2005; Davis, Perea, & Acha, 2009; Davis & Taft, 2005). In an eye movement experiment we examined whether lexical embeddings produce interference even when explicit judgements about lexicality or category membership are not solicited. Participants silently read sentences that each contained a target word with a lexical embedding. Fixation times were longer on target words that contained a higher frequency embedding compared to those that contained a lower frequency embedding. This finding indicates that a high frequency embedding interferes with word identification during silent reading and adds to a growing body of evidence that a word's orthographic neighbourhood includes embedded words. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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