Early Morphological Effects in Reading: Evidence from Parafoveal Preview Benefit in Hebrew

Overview

Journal Psychon Bull Rev

Specialty Psychology

Date 2003 Aug 19

PMID 12921418

Citations 25

Authors

Avital Deutsch

Ram Frost

Sharon Pelleg

Alexander Pollatsek

Keith Rayner

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Abstract

Hebrew words are composed of two interwoven morphemes: a triconsonantal root and a word pattern. We examined the role of the root morpheme in word identification by assessing the benefit of presentation of a parafoveal preview word derived from the same root as a target word. Although the letter information of the preview was not consciously perceived, a preview of a word derived from the same root morpheme as the foveal target word facilitated eye-movement measures of first-pass reading (i.e.,first fixation and gaze duration). These results are the first to demonstrate early morphological effects in the context of sentence reading in which no external task is imposed on the reader, and converge with previous findings of morphemic priming in Hebrew using the masked priming paradigm, and morphemic parafoveal preview benefit effects in a single-word identification task.

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