Morphological preview effects in English are restricted to suffixed words.

Morphological Complexity in English Prefixed Words: An Experimental Investigation by

Frequency Effects in Auditory Word Recognition: The Case of Suffixed Words

This research studied the role of surface and cumulative word frequency in the processing and representation of morphologically complex suffixed words. Experiment 1 showed that auditory lexical decision times to suffixed words were influenced by their surface frequency. Experiments 2 and 3 showed a cumulative root frequency effect for highand low-surface-frequency suffixed words. Experiment 4 d...

English Words Are Processed Like Objects

This experiment sought to explore the theory that familiar English words are processed similarly to objects. To do this, we looked for object-based attentional facilitation where cues in a different location to the target still facilitate target detection as long as they are inside the same object. Participants were shown two English words in an array, and cues and targets were embedded inside ...

The neural basis of obligatory decomposition of suffixed words.

Recent neurolinguistic studies present somewhat conflicting evidence concerning the role of the inferior temporal cortex (IT) in visual word recognition within the first 200 ms after presentation. On the one hand, fMRI studies of the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) suggest that the IT might recover representations of the orthographic form of words. On the other hand, influential MEG studies of res...

The Effect of Raising Morphological Decomposition Awareness on Lexical Knowledge of Complex English Words

Lexical knowledge of complex English words is an important part of language skills and crucial for fluent language use. This study aimed to assess the role of morphological decomposition awareness as a vocabulary learning strategy on learners’ productive and receptive recall and recognition of complex English words. University students majoring English at the...