Article published in:
What is a verb? – Linguistic, psycholinguistic and developmental perspectives on verbs in Germanic and Semitic languagesEdited by Eva Smolka and Dorit Ravid
[The Mental Lexicon 14:2] 2019
► pp. 298–318
Aufhören (‘stop’) activates hören (‘hear’) but not Musik (‘music’)
The difference between lexical and semantic processing of German particle verbs
This study examines whether the lexical processing of German particle verbs differs from their processing in a
semantic network. To this end, we explored whether the processing of particle verbs induces access to the stem (Experiment 1) and
to a semantic associate of the stem (Experiment 2). In two cross-modal priming experiments, participants listened to particle
verbs that were (a) semantically transparent (e.g. anhören, ‘listen to’), (b) semantically opaque (e.g.
aufhören, ‘stop’), or (c) form-related (e.g. aushöhlen, ‘mold’) with respect to their stem
(e.g., hören, ‘hear’). Participants made lexical decisions about visually presented stems (e.g.,
hören, ‘hear’) and about semantic associates to the stem (e.g., Musik, ‘music’) in
Experiments 1 and 2, respectively.Relative to form controls, semantically transparent and opaque particle verbs induced equivalent stem priming
(Experiment 1), indicating that the lexical processing of particle verbs occurs via the stem regardless of semantic transparency.
However, neither semantically transparent nor opaque particle verbs primed semantic associates of the stem (Experiment 2). These
findings indicate that stem access during lexical processing does not extend to a semantic level where the meaning of the stem is
processed. We discuss these findings regarding present models of lexical processing.
Keywords: morphological priming, semantic priming, semantic associations, semantic transparency, lexical processing, lexical representation, stem priming, particle verbs, complex verbs
Published online: 15 January 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.00008.smo
https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.00008.smo
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