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Writing Systems, Reading Processes, and Cross-Linguistic Influences: Reflections from the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Languages
Edited by Hye K. Pae
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition 7] 2018
► pp. 221–244

Chapter 11
Constituent-priming investigations of the morphological activation of Japanese compound words

This chapter reports on two experiments conducted to investigate the morphological activation of two-kanji compound words using the constituent-morpheme priming paradigm with a series of very-brief masked stimulus onset asynchronicity (SOA) conditions. In contrast to Experiment 1 where the word-formation principle (WFP) conditions all involved Sino-Japanese (SJ) compound word targets, the WFP conditions for Experiment 2 included both SJ and native-Japanese (NJ) WFP targets. The results from both experiments provide evidence for the early contributions of morphological information to the lexical processing of compound words, in terms of advantages for left-to-right processing, for head-morphemes and for lexical-stratum. The results are discussed in the context of the Japanese lemma-unit model (Joyce, 2002a, 2002b).

Keywords: Japanese compound words, morphological activation, constituent-morpheme priming paradigm, Japanese lemma-unit model
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Experiment 1: SJ compound words under brief SOAs
    • 2.1 Methods
      • 2.1.1Design
      • 2.1.2Materials
      • 2.1.3Apparatus
      • 2.1.4 Procedure
      • 2.1.5Participants
    • 2.2Results and discussion
      • 2.2.1Overall analyses
      • 2.2.2 Focusing on the VC and CV contrast
      • 2.2.3Discussion
  • 3.Experiment 2: Mixed SJ and NJ compound words
    • 3.1Methods
      • 3.1.1Design and materials
      • 3.1.2 Apparatus and procedure
      • 3.1.3Participants
    • 3.2Results and discussion
      • 3.2.1Overall analyses
      • 3.2.2Focusing on the lexical stratum contrasts
      • 3.2.3Discussion
  • 4.General discussion
  • References
Published online: 10 July 2018
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