What do graded effects of semantic transparency reveal about morphological processing

摘要: We examined the influence of semantic transparency on morphological facilitation in English three lexical decision experiments. Decision latencies to visual targets (e.g., CASUALNESS) were faster after semantically transparent CASUALLY) than opaque CASUALTY) primes whether auditory and presented immediately before onset target (Experiment 1a) or with an stimulus asynchrony (SOA) 250 ms 1b). Latencies did not differ at SOA 48 2) a forward mask 83 3). Generally, effects among relatives evident long but short SOAs targets, regardless prime modality. Moreover, difference was graded increased family size base morpheme.