scholarly journals The Role of Semantic Transparency in the Processing of Compound Words in Polish: Evidence from a Masked Priming Experiment

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Masked Priming ◽  
Semantic Transparency ◽  
Compound Words

scholarly journals Imaging Implicit Morphological Processing: Evidence from Hebrew

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 1955-1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atira S. Bick ◽  
Ram Frost ◽  
Gadi Goelman
Keyword(s):  
Masked Priming ◽  
Statistical Correlation ◽  
Morphological Processing ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Semantic Transparency ◽  
Lexical Structure ◽  
The Neural Networks ◽  
Distinct Aspect ◽  
The Brain

Is morphology a discrete and independent element of lexical structure or does it simply reflect a fine-tuning of the system to the statistical correlation that exists among orthographic and semantic properties of words? Hebrew provides a unique opportunity to examine morphological processing in the brain because of its rich morphological system. In an fMRI masked priming experiment, we investigated the neural networks involved in implicit morphological processing in Hebrew. In the lMFG and lIFG, activation was found to be significantly reduced when the primes were morphologically related to the targets. This effect was not influenced by the semantic transparency of the morphological prime, and was not found in the semantic or orthographic condition. Additional morphologically related decrease in activation was found in the lIPL, where activation was significantly modulated by semantic transparency. Our findings regarding implicit morphological processing suggest that morphology is an automatic and distinct aspect of visually processing words. These results also coincide with the behavioral data previously obtained demonstrating the central role of morphological processing in reading Hebrew.

The role of semantic transparency in the processing of Finnish compound words

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 261-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Pollatsek ◽  
Jukka Hyönä
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Transparency ◽  
Compound Words

The role of semantic transparency in the processing of English compound words

2008 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Frisson ◽  
Elizabeth Niswander-Klement ◽  
Alexander Pollatsek
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Transparency ◽  
Compound Words

Everything is Psycholinguistics: Material and Methodological Considerations in the Study of Compound Processing

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 267-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Libben
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Processing System ◽  
Morphological Processing ◽  
Semantic Transparency ◽  
Compound Words ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Whole Word

AbstractCompound words allow us to investigate lexical storage, retrieval, and interpretation. The role of storage and computation in compound processing is reviewed. It is claimed that morphological processing is automatic and obligatory, and that multi-morphemic words require resolution of a conflict between whole-word and constituent activation. This leads to the conclusion that morphological constituents are created through morphological processing so that strawberry comes to be composed of straw- and -berry; these constituents are positionally bound so that berry-, -berry, and berry are distinct processing units. This proliferation of morphological representations resolves long-standing puzzles concerning semantic transparency and challenges traditional psycholinguistic approaches that investigate the effect of some independent variable (such as semantic transparency) on task performance as a dependent variable. It is suggested that psycholinguistic inquiry may be understood as the study of the correlation of dependent variables within the language processing system.

scholarly journals Semantic transparency effects in German compounds: A large dataset and multiple-task investigation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fritz Guenther ◽  
Marco Marelli ◽  
Jens Bölte
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Distributional Semantics ◽  
Semantic Model ◽  
Semantic Transparency ◽  
Dimensional Approach ◽  
Compound Words ◽  
Behavioral Experiments ◽  
Large Dataset ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Multiple Task

In the present study, we provide a comprehensive analysis and a multi-dimensional dataset of semantic transparency measures for 1,810 German compound words. Compound words are considered semantically transparent when the contribution of the constituents’ meaning to the compound meaning is clear (as in airport), but the degree of semantic transparency varies between compounds (compare strawberry or sandman). Our dataset includes both compositional and relatedness-based semantic transparency measures, also differentiated by constituents. The measures are obtained from a computational and fully implemented semantic model based on distributional semantics. We validate the measures using data from four behavioral experiments: Explicit transparency ratings, two different lexical decision tasks using different nonwords, and an eye-tracking study. We demonstrate that different semantic effects emerge in different behavioral tasks, which can only be capturedusing a multi-dimensional approach to semantic transparency. We further provide the semantic transparency measures derived from the model for a dataset of 40,475 additional German compounds, as well as for 2,061 novel German compounds.

The role of syllables in intermediate-depth stress-timed languages: masked priming evidence in European Portuguese

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1209-1229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Duarte Campos ◽  
Helena Mendes Oliveira ◽  
Ana Paula Soares
Keyword(s):  
Masked Priming ◽  
Intermediate Depth ◽  
European Portuguese

Semantic transparency affects morphological priming . . . eventually

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 1112-1124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Heyer ◽  
Dana Kornishova
Keyword(s):  
Time Course ◽  
Semantic Information ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Masked Priming ◽  
Stimulus Onset ◽  
Semantic Transparency ◽  
Psycholinguistic Research ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Morphological Priming ◽  
Complex Words

Semantic transparency has been in the focus of psycholinguistic research for decades, with the controversy about the time course of the application of morpho-semantic information during the processing of morphologically complex words not yet resolved. This study reports two masked priming studies with English - ness and Russian - ost’ nominalisations, investigating how semantic transparency modulates native speakers’ morphological priming effects at short and long stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs). In both languages, we found increased morphological priming for nominalisations at the transparent end of the scale (e.g. paleness – pale) in comparison to items at the opaque end of the scale (e.g. business – busy) but only at longer prime durations. The present findings are in line with models that posit an initial phase of morpho-orthographic (semantically blind) decomposition.

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