Article published In: Morphology and its interfaces: Syntax, semantics and the lexicon
Edited by Dany Amiot, Delphine Tribout, Natalia Grabar, Cédric Patin and Fayssal Tayalati
[Lingvisticæ Investigationes 37:2] 2014
► pp. 338–352
Does morphology play a role in L2 processing?
Two masked priming experiments with Greek speakers of ESL
Published online: 22 May 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/li.37.2.10vog
https://doi.org/10.1075/li.37.2.10vog
Two masked priming experiments with Greek advanced ESL speakers were run in order to reproduce the experiments reported by Silva & Clahsen (2008): our data yielded similar derivational priming but divergent results for inflectional priming. After comparing the two sets of results and examining some discrepancies between the two studies, we provide an interpretation outside the decompositional framework: morphological priming effects are not viewed as low level perceptual saliency effects but rather as the result of the form-meaning systematic relations.
Keywords: Morphological processing, inflection, L2 lexicon, masked priming, derivation
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