Masked Morphological Priming with Varying Levels of Form Overlap:Evidence from Greek Verbs.

Abstract

The present study used the masked priming paradigm to examine effects of past tense primes on the recognition of present tense targets in Greek, while varying the level of form-overlap across prime and target. Morphological effects were assessed relative to unrelated as well as form-related control primes. When measured against unrelated control primes effects of morphological relatedness interacted with level of form overlap. When measured against form-related controls, morphological priming no longer interacted with level of form overlap. This suggests that masked morphological priming is relatively independent of form relatedness per se, and that abstract, form-independent morphemic representations are at play. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract).