ABSTRACT

The morphological structure of the word has a central function in the organization of the mental lexicon and word recognition. Polymorphemic words in Arabic are composed of two non-concatenated morphemes: root and word-pattern. This study is the first to address the issue of nominal-pattern priming among young developing Arabic speakers. I examined cross-modal priming using words derived from the same nominal-pattern as the target (/ruku:b/-/duxu:l/riding-entrance) relative to prime words that included a different word-pattern than the target, while preserving phonological similarity (/duxa:n/-/duxu:l/“smoke”-“entrance”) in two groups: second- and fifth-graders. The findings showed facilitation of lexical decisions about target words, in terms of accuracy but not reaction times in both grades. These findings may stem from the morpho-orthographic nature of the Arabic written word and the information conveyed by the nominal word-pattern.

摘要

单词的形态结构在心理词典和单词识别的组织中具有中心作用。阿拉伯语中的多态词由两个非串联的词素组成：词根和词模式。这项研究是第一个解决年轻人讲阿拉伯语的名词模式启动问题的研究。我使用与目标相同的名词模式（/ ruku：b /-/ duxu：l / ride -entrance）衍生的单词相对于包含与目标不同的单词模式的素词检查了跨模式启动保留语音相似性（/ duxa：n /-/ duxu：l /分为两组：“二年级”和“五年级”。调查结果表明，就准确性而言，有关目标词的词汇决策变得容易，但两个年级的反应时间却不一样。这些发现可能源于阿拉伯文字的词素形态学特征以及名义词模式传达的信息。