Two decades later: letter transpositions within and across morpheme boundaries in L1 and L2 speakers

• Hasibe Kahraman ^[1] ; Bilal Kırkıcı ^[2] ; Elisabeth Beyersmann ^[1]
  1. [1] Macquarie University

     Macquarie University

     Australia

     
  2. [2] Middle East Technical University

     Middle East Technical University

     Turquía

     
• Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 28, Nº 4, 2025, págs. 1177-1195
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1017/S1366728924001020
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• Resumen

  • 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.

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