The impact of semantic transparency of morphologically complex words on picture naming

Dohmes, P., Zwitserlood, P., & Bölte, J.

Forschungsartikel (Zeitschrift) | Peer reviewed

Zusammenfassung

We examined the contribution of semantic similarity to morphological priming effects, using the immediate (Exp. 1 and 3) and the delayed variant (Exp. 2) of picture word interference. Distractor words were either compounds morphologically related to the picture name, but differing with respect to their semantic transparency (hummingbird, jailbird (Exp. 1); butterfly, butter dish (Exp. 3)), or form-related non-compound words (e.g., trombone). All three experiments revealed strong facilitation of picture naming due to morphologically related distractors. Form-related distractors facilitated picture naming in the immediate variant only, and to a lesser degree than compounds. Interestingly, the size of the morphemic effect was almost identical for semantically transparent and opaque complex words, which suggests that they share morphemic representations. These results suggest that morphological complexity in speech production is coded at the level of form representations, independent of semantic transparency. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Details zur Publikation

FachzeitschriftBrain and Language
Jahrgang / Bandnr. / Volume90
Ausgabe / Heftnr. / Issue1-3
Seitenbereich203-212
StatusVeröffentlicht
Veröffentlichungsjahr2004 (30.09.2004)
Sprache, in der die Publikation verfasst istEnglisch
DOI10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00433-4
Stichwörterspeech production morphology semantic transparency picture-word interference noun-noun compounds speech production lexical access spoken words recognition morphemes model forms

Autor*innen der Universität Münster

Bölte, Jens
Institut für Psychologie
Zwitserlood, Pienie
Professur für Psycholinguistik und kognitive Neurowissenschaft (Prof. Zwitserlood)