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BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 543-550Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728914000662
Keywords
Masked priming; late bilinguals; derivation; orthographic overlap
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- Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism (PRIM)
- Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
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Masked priming research with late (non-native) bilinguals has reported facilitation effects following morphologically derived prime words (scanner - scan). However, unlike for native speakers, there are suggestions that purely orthographic prime-target overlap (scandal - scan) also produces priming in non-native visual word recognition. Our study directly compares orthographically related and derived prime-target pairs. While native readers showed morphological but not formal overlap priming, the two prime types yielded the same magnitudes of facilitation for non-natives. We argue that early word recognition processes in a non-native language are more influenced by surface-form properties than in one's native language.
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