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The processing of derivational morphology in Korean–English bilingual readers*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 August 2011

SAY YOUNG KIM ,
MIN WANG  and
IN YEONG KO
SAY YOUNG KIM
Affiliation:
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park
MIN WANG*
Affiliation:
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park
IN YEONG KO
Affiliation:
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park
*
Address for correspondence: Min Wang, Department of Human Development, 3304C Benjamin Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USAminwang@umd.edu
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Abstract

Three experiments using a priming lexical decision paradigm were conducted to examine whether cross-language activation occurs via decomposition during the processing of derived words in Korean–English bilingual readers. In Experiment 1, when participants were given a real derived word and an interpretable derived pseudoword (i.e., illegal combination of a stem and a suffix) in Korean as a prime, response times for the corresponding English-translated stem were significantly faster than when they had received an unrelated word. In Experiment 2, non-morphological ending pseudowords (i.e., illegal combination of a stem and an orthographic ending) were included, and this did not show a priming effect. In Experiment 3, non-interpretable derived pseudowords also yielded a significant priming effect just as the interpretable ones. These results together suggest that cross-language activation of morphologically complex words occurs independently of lexicality and interpretability.

Keywords

derivational morphologydecompositionKorean–English bilingualismcross-language activation
Type
Research Article
Information
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 473 - 488
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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Footnotes

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This work was supported in part by a Support Program for Advancing Research and Collaboration (SPARC) from the University of Maryland to the first author. We are grateful to Ken Forster for his valuable suggestions and comments on an early version of the paper. We thank Ton Dijkstra for his discussion on theoretical issues. Dr. Yan Jing Wu and two other, anonymous reviewers provided excellent reviews on this manuscript. We also thank Charles Mueller and Candise Y. Lin for their careful proofreading of an early version of the paper.

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