Two decades later

Letter transpositions within and across morpheme boundaries in L1 and L2 speakers

Dados Bibliográficos

ID15087366
AutoresHasibe Kahraman (0000-0003-1274-9118, Macquarie University, autor correspondente), Bilal Kırkıcı (0000-0002-6423-7774, Middle East Technical University), Elisabeth Beyersmann (0000-0001-9653-6106, Macquarie University)
Ano2025
Volume28
Fascículo4
Páginas1177-1195
Data de publicação2025-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBilingualism Language and Cognition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1366-7289 • E-ISSN: 1469-1841
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1366728924001020
OpenAlexW4406542273
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas81

This study examined the influence of letter transpositions on morphological facilitation in L1 English and L1 Chinese-L2 English speakers. Morphological priming effects were investigated by comparing morphologically complex primes that either contained transposed-letters (TL) within the stem or across the morpheme boundary, relative to a substituted-letter (SL) control. Within two masked primed lexical decision experiments, the same stem targets were preceded by morphologically related, TL-within, SL-within, TL-across, SL-across, or unrelated primes. Reaction time analyses with morphologically intact primes revealed facilitation in both L1 and L2 English. In L1, TL-within priming was significant, while the magnitude of TL-across priming varied as a function of positional specific bigram frequency and spelling proficiency. In L2, TL-priming was entirely absent. These findings support models of complex word recognition that accommodate relative flexibility in letter position encoding

Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Morpheme · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development