McCormick, Samantha F., Rastle, Kathy and Davis, Matthew H. (2009) Adore-able not adorable? Orthographic underspecification studied with masked repetition priming. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 21 (6).
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This paper reports three masked priming experiments examining morphological priming with nonword primes, using targets that were incompletely represented in the primes due to a missing "e'' at the morpheme boundary (e.g., adorage-adore). Primes were constructed with a vowel-initial suffix (e.g., adorage) in the first experiment and with a consonant-initial suffix (e.g., adorly) in the second experiment. Priming was observed in both experiments relative to an orthographic control condition. Experiment 3 was a control experiment designed to show that targets in the morphological and orthographic form conditions of the first two experiments were equally susceptible to priming. Overall, our findings provide support for a form of morphemic decomposition that is based on the mere appearance of morphological complexity (e.g., Rastle, Davis, & New, 2004), and demonstrate that this form of morphemic decomposition is robust to regular orthographic alterations that occur in morphologically complex words.
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