ABSTRACT German verb stems may be combined with a particle or a prefix, forming particle and prefixed verbs, respectively. Both types of verbs are morphologically complex, yet particles are free morphemes, which are routinely separated from their stem and can stand alone in a sentence, whereas prefixes are bound morphemes, which are attached to their stem and cannot stand alone in a sentence. Morphologically complex words are thought to be segmented into their constituent morphemes during reading. On this assumption, we took advantage of the separability feature of the constituent morphemes of particle verbs to investigate how the segmentation process occurs in skilled reading. Thirty German adults participated in a sentence-reading task that employed the eye-contingent boundary paradigm in eye-tracking. We observed no differences in the processing of particle and prefixed verbs, which suggests that idiosyncratic linguistic characteristics do not modulate the way morphologically complex words are segmented in skilled reading.

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阅读德语形态复杂的词：助词和前缀动词的情况

摘要 德语动词词干可以与助词或前缀组合，分别形成助词和带前缀的动词。这两种动词在形态上都很复杂，但粒子是自由语素，通常与词干分开，可以单独存在于句子中，而前缀是绑定语素，附着在词干上，不能单独存在于句子中。形态复杂的单词被认为在阅读过程中被分割成它们的组成语素。在这个假设下，我们利用助词动词构成语素的可分性特征来研究在熟练阅读中分词过程是如何发生的。30 名德国成年人参与了一项在眼动追踪中使用眼动边界范式的句子阅读任务。