ERIC Number: EJ1318945
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Publication Date: 2021-Sep
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Interplay of Morphological Configuration and Language Switching in Numerical Processing and Word Processing
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v47 n9 p1527-1545 Sep 2021
The aim of the present study was to examine the interplay of morphological configuration switching and language switching. The morphological configuration is present in word-formation whenever a word contains more than one free morpheme. The morphological configuration is variable both within and between languages for example in two-digit number names (is the decade named first as in twenty-one or the unit named first as in seventeen) and in compound words (is the modifier or the head named first). In the present experiments, participants had to switch between morphological configurations and between languages (German, English, and Spanish). Language-switch cost was measured as the performance difference between language-switch trials and language-repetition trials. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants performed language-comprehension tasks on two-digit numbers and a language-production task on compound words in Experiment 3. All three experiments revealed an under-additive switch cost pattern in which a larger language-switch cost occurred in morphological configuration-repetition trials than in morphological configuration-switch trials. Thus, the present data indicate integration of the morphological configuration and language into one language-related schema--irrespective of the language task (comprehension vs. production) and the type of stimuli (number words vs. compound nouns).
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Code Switching (Language), Morphemes, German, Spanish, English, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Nouns, Psycholinguistics, Language Processing, Turkish, Numbers, Second Languages, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Scores, Reaction Time, Error Analysis (Language), Multilingualism, Computational Linguistics
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