ABSTRACT

Recent constituent priming experiments show that Dutch and German prefixed verbs prime their stem, regardless of semantic transparency (e.g. Smolka et al. [(2014). ‘Verstehen’ (‘understand’) primes ‘stehen’ (‘stand’): Morphological structure overrides semantic compositionality in the lexical representation of German complex verbs. Journal of Memory and Language, 72, 16–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2013.12.002]). We examine whether the processing of opaque verbs (e.g. herhalen “repeat”) involves the retrieval of only the whole-word meaning, or whether the lexical-semantic meaning of the stem (halen as “take/get”) is retrieved as well. We report the results of an auditory semantic priming experiment with Dutch prefixed verbs, testing whether the recognition of a semantic associate to the stem (BRENGEN “bring”) is facilitated by the presentation of an opaque prefixed verb. In contrast to prior visual studies, significant facilitation after semantically opaque primes is found, which suggests that the lexical-semantic meaning of stems in opaque words is retrieved. We examine the implications that these findings have for auditory word recognition, and for the way in which different types of meanings are represented and processed.

摘要

最近的成分启动实验表明，无论语义透明度如何，荷兰语和德语前缀动词都会启动它们的词干（例如 Smolka 等人 [(2014). 'Verstehen' ('understand') primes 'stehen' ('stand'): Morphological structure覆盖在德国复杂动词。的词汇表示语义组合性记忆和语言杂志，72，16-36。https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2013.12.002]）。我们检查不透明动词的处理（例如herhalen “repeat”）是否只涉及检索整个词的含义，或者词干的词汇语义含义（halen作为“获取/获取”）也被检索。我们报告了荷兰语前缀动词的听觉语义启动实验的结果，测试是否通过不透明前缀动词的呈现来促进对词干（BRENGEN “bring”）的语义关联的识别。与先前的视觉研究相比，发现语义不透明的素数之后的显着促进作用，这表明不透明词中词干的词汇语义意义被检索。我们研究了这些发现对听觉单词识别的影响，以及不同类型意义的表示和处理方式。