TY - JOUR
T1 - Parafoveal processing of inflectional morphology on Russian nouns
AU - Stoops, Anastasia
AU - Christianson, Kiel
N1 - This research was supported by National Science Foundation [grant number BCS-0847533] to Kiel Christianson.
PY - 2017/8/18
Y1 - 2017/8/18
N2 - The present study investigated whether inflectional morphology on Russian nouns is processed parafoveally during silent reading. The boundary-change paradigm [Rayner, K. (1975). The perceptual span and peripheral cues in reading. Cognitive Psychology, 7, 65–81] was used to examine parafoveal processing of nominal case markings of Russian nouns. The results yielded preview cost for morphologically related preview in gaze duration (vs. an identical baseline) and in total time (TT) (vs. a non-word baseline) and preview benefit in regressions out of the target word. The contribution of the study is two-fold. First this is the first demonstration that bound nominal inflectional morphemes are processed parafoveally in a language with linear concatenated morphology (Russian). Second the observed preview effects suggest that parafoveal preview of a morphologically related word was processed fully in the parafovea and interfered with the integration of the target word into the syntactic structure of the sentence.
AB - The present study investigated whether inflectional morphology on Russian nouns is processed parafoveally during silent reading. The boundary-change paradigm [Rayner, K. (1975). The perceptual span and peripheral cues in reading. Cognitive Psychology, 7, 65–81] was used to examine parafoveal processing of nominal case markings of Russian nouns. The results yielded preview cost for morphologically related preview in gaze duration (vs. an identical baseline) and in total time (TT) (vs. a non-word baseline) and preview benefit in regressions out of the target word. The contribution of the study is two-fold. First this is the first demonstration that bound nominal inflectional morphemes are processed parafoveally in a language with linear concatenated morphology (Russian). Second the observed preview effects suggest that parafoveal preview of a morphologically related word was processed fully in the parafovea and interfered with the integration of the target word into the syntactic structure of the sentence.
KW - Parafoveal processing
KW - Russian
KW - eye-movements
KW - morphological processing
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U2 - 10.1080/20445911.2017.1310109
DO - 10.1080/20445911.2017.1310109
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85017106039
SN - 2044-5911
VL - 29
SP - 653
EP - 669
JO - Journal of Cognitive Psychology
JF - Journal of Cognitive Psychology
IS - 6
ER -