ABSTRACT

The present study examined cross-linguistic differences in morphological processing in the visual and auditory modality. French and German adults performed a visual and auditory lexical decision task that involved the same translation-equivalent items. The focus of the study was on nonwords, which were constructed in a way that made it possible to independently investigate the role of stems and suffixes in the visual and auditory domain. Results revealed a stem-by-modality and a suffix-by-modality interaction, indicating that morphology plays a more prominent role in the visual than in the auditory domain. Moreover, a significant language-by-stem interaction indicated more robust morphological processing in German than in French. The latter result supports the idea that morphological processing is influenced by the morphological productivity of a language.

摘要

本研究检查了视觉和听觉形态在语言加工中的跨语言差异。法国和德国成年人执行了视觉和听觉上的词汇决策任务，涉及相同的翻译等价项目。该研究的重点是非词，其构造方式使得可以独立研究词干和后缀在视觉和听觉领域中的作用。结果显示，词干逐模态和后缀逐模态的交互作用，表明形态学在视觉上比听觉域更重要。此外，重要的语言-词根交互作用表明德语比法语具有更强大的形态处理能力。