Exploring Morphological Structures in the Mental Lexicons of Japanese EFL Learners : Do Morphemes Have Independent Mental Representations?
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To depict the whole picture of the mental lexicon of Japanese EFL learners, it is necessary to explore several aspects of vocabulary knowledge. The present study explores the morphological aspects by employing a masked-priming experiment, which is a psycholinguistic method where participants perform lexical decision tasks on the targets (e.g., HAPPY) that are briefly primed with derivationally related words (e.g., happiness). The results show that real derivative primes quickened the reaction times to the targets, indicating that derivatives and their stems have relationships in their mental lexicons. On the other hand, pseudo-derivative primes did not quicken the reaction times of the targets, suggesting that morpheme-level representations do not appear to exist in their mental lexicons. The results indicate that there is a difference in the morphological representations between intermediate-level Japanese EFL learners and L1 speakers of English.
- 2010-10-25
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