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A Priming-Lexical Decision paradigm was used to investigate the function of morphemes in processing Chinese compound words and its relation with time-course with Korean students and those from non-character background countries as subjects. In the experiment,primes and targets either shared a common morpheme,or had homophonic-homographic morphemes,or had homophonic,orthographically similar morphemes,or had semantically related words. It was found that the general tendencies towards the processing of Chinese words were similar,but there were some differences in the processing of homophonic-homographic morphemes and the phonetic information. Based on these results,we discussed the constructive pattern of Chinese mental lexicon of foreign students,and put forward some proposals on the teaching of vocabulary.
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The present study used a repetition priming paradigm to investigate the basic morphological units stored in mental lexicon for Chinese as second language learners (L2) and Chinese native speakers (L1). Meanwhile, the modulation of Chinese morpheme property (bound or free) in lexical processing was examined. The results revealed that for intermediate-level L2 learners, Chinese words could be accessed through either whole-words or morphemes, while advanced-level learners and Chinese natives might employ a whole-word pathway. This might suggest that as language proficiency and reading experience develops, learners tend to rely more on whole-words as a processing strategy. Regarding the morpheme property effect, bound morphemes reported a greater priming effect than free morphemes in lexical decision tasks for both L1 and L2 speakers, which was interpreted with an interactive-activation framework.
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Abstract By comparing different theoretical models of phonological representation, this paper considers (i) what kinds of properties are lexically specified in morpheme-internal phonological structure, and (ii) how this morpheme-internal phonological structure is constructed before being stored in the mental lexicon. The aim is to contribute to the ongoing development of a model which can characterize the lexicalisation of phonological structure within morphemes.
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We sought to establish whether novel words can become integrated into existing semantic networks by teaching participants new meaningful words and then using these new words as primes in two semantic priming experiments, in which participants carried out a lexical decision task to familiar words. Importantly, at no point in training did the novel words co-occur with the familiar words that served as targets in the primed lexical decision task, allowing us to evaluate semantic priming in the absence of direct association. We found that familiar words were primed by the newly related novel words, both when the novel word prime was unmasked (experiment 1) and when it was masked (experiment 2), suggesting that the new words had been integrated into semantic memory. Furthermore, this integration was strongest after a 1-week delay and was independent of explicit recall of the novel word meanings: Forgetting of meanings did not attenuate priming. We argue that even after brief training, newly learned words become an integrated part of the adult mental lexicon rather than being episodically represented separately from the lexicon.
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Lexical morphemes such as roots, stems, inflectional and derivational affixes constitute the basic ingredients of words in languages. After 30 years of investigations, the majority of the psycholinguists nowadays agree in assigning a central role to morphology within the mental lexicon. More precisely, numerous studies have demonstrated the relevance of morphemes during reading and the earliness of morphological processing during lexical access, suggesting that morphemes are independently coded somewhere in the mental lexicon: -Either morphemic units stand as access units to word representations (Sublexical approach of Taft, 1994) -or they organize word representations in terms of morphological families (Supralexical approach of Giraudo & Grainger, 2000)
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A controversial issue in neuro-linguistics is that which linguistic unit is the basic unit in Chinese mental lexicon.This study investigated the memory decoding process of three mono-morphemic units(words,non-free morphemes and meaningless characters) by an ERPs experiment based on the study-test paradigm.The ERPs results show that the words elicit larger amplitude of the second positive component(P2) and the late positive component(LPC) than non-free morphemes,but non-free morphemes elicit the largest N400 amplitude.The results from the experiment suggest that the basic units in the mental lexicon are rather words than non-free morphemes and meaningless characters,because only words may be stored independently in Chinese mental lexicon.
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With the free and bound morphemes of different productivity and foreign students speaking different native languages as the subjects, one experiment was conducted to study the influence of the nature and productivity on the processing of Chinese morphemes. The results showed that for South Korean students, the Chinese morphemes with different kinds of nature and productivity are recognized differently and the basic morphological awareness in their mental lexicon has been formed. However, the morphological awareness of European students is still in the course of development.
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