Monolingual English speakers and Chinese–English bilinguals were compared on their lexical decision performance in a masked priming experiment where the prime and target ended in the same embedded word. All primes were nonwords where the letters in addition to the embedded word did not form a morpheme (e.g., the sab of sabagree or the ple of plerough). The targets were of two types. In one condition they were prefixed words (as in sabagree–DISAGREE) and in the other they were nonprefixed words (as in plerough–THOROUGH). With an unrelated prime as the baseline, the native speakers showed priming for the prefixed words but not the nonprefixed words, whereas the nonnative speakers showed priming for both types of word. It was concluded from these results that nonnative speakers focus more on the individual letters of a complex word than do native speakers when reading, and the specific processing mechanisms that might underlie this are discussed.

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一种新型的掩蔽形式启动

在一个掩蔽启动实验中，比较了单语英语使用者和汉英双语者的词汇决策性能，其中主要和目标以相同的嵌入词结尾。所有素数都是非词，其中除了嵌入词之外的字母不构成语素（例如，萨布的萨巴格里或者请的普罗劳）。目标有两种类型。在一种情况下，它们是前缀词（如萨巴格瑞-不同意) 而在另一个中，它们是无前缀的词（如plerough–彻底）。以不相关的素数作为基线，母语者对前缀词显示启动，但对非前缀词不显示，而非母语者对两种类型的词都显示启动。从这些结果中得出的结论是，非母语者在阅读时比母语者更关注复杂单词的单个字母，并讨论了可能构成这一点的具体处理机制。