Accessing Deverbal Nouns in L1 and L2 Arabic: A Masked-Priming Experiment

The current study examines how non-native speakers process deverbal nouns of Arabic. Unlike Indo-European languages, the word-formation in Arabic occurs a discontinuous manner. root morpheme (carrying core semantic information) interlocks word pattern (which holds phonological and morpho-syntactic information). Research on shows that native decompose derived inflected (deverbal verbs) complex words during lexical processing. Priming studies processing did not appear to have consistent findings whether L2 or fully list forms; Using masked-priming experiment, this examined words, particularly, real-time. We tested group L1 Turkish /L2 learners six experimental conditions which relationship between prime target is either morphological, orthographic, semantic. results indicated priming effects morphological for speakers, but speakers. This into their patterns morphemes whereas them as whole forms online These support claim use different strategies real-time words.