Does linear position matter for morphological processing? Evidence from a Tagalog masked priming experiment

This study investigated morphological decomposition of Tagalog infixed, prefixed, and suffixed words using the masked priming paradigm. We directly compared ni- prefixed -in to examine whether infixes are processed similarly other affixes during early automatic decomposition. found significant effects for words, but no semantic or orthographic similarity priming. Magnitudes infixed were not significantly different, suggesting that was more costly speakers, contrary phonological readjustment-based accounts infixation. is first psycholinguistic experiment showing decomposed into units visual word recognition. provide evidence imperfect edge-alignment stem within does hamper mechanisms, might be critical trigger activation units.