Morphological Family Size Effects in Young First and Second Language Learners: Evidence of Cross-Language Semantic Activation in Visual Word Recognition

Language Learning

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 68-92

  De Zeeuw, Marlies ^a   Verhoeven, Ludo ^a   Schreuder, Robert ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Cross language interaction; Dutch; Morphological family size; Reading acquisition; Second language; Semantic activation; Word reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857355332     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2011.00691.x     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Baayen, R. H. (2008). Analyzing linguistic data: A practical introduction to statistics using R. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press.
2. Baayen, R. H., Davidson, D. J., & Bates, D. M. (2008). Mixed-effects modeling with crossed random effects for subjects and items. Journal of Memory and Language, 59, 390-412.
3. Baayen, R. H., Lieber, R., & Schreuder A. R. (1997). The morphological complexity of simplex nouns. Linguistics, 35, 861-877.
4. Baayen, R. H., Piepenbrock, R., & Gulikers, L. (1995). The CELEX lexical database. Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
5. Bertram, R., Baayen, R. H., & Schreuder, R. (2000). Effects of family size for complex words. Journal of Memory and Language, 42, 390-405.
6. Carlisle, J. F., & Katz, L. A. (2006). Effects of word and morpheme familiarity on reading of derived words. Reading and Writing, 12, 169-190.
7. De Jong, N. H. (2002). Morphological families in the mental lexicon. Doctoral dissertation. Nijmegen, MPI : Series in Psycholinguistics.
8. De Jong, N. H., Feldman, L. B., Schreuder, R., Pastizzo, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2002). The processing and representation of Dutch and English compounds: Peripheral morphological and central orthographic effects. Brain and Language, 81, 555-567.
9. De Jong, N. H., Schreuder, R., & Baayen, R. H. (2000). The morphological family size effect and morphology. Language and Cognitive Processes, 15, 329-365.
10. Dijkstra, T. (2005). Bilingual visual word recognition and lexical access. In J. F. Kroll & A. M. B. de Groot (Eds.), Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (pp. 179-201). Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press.
11. Dijkstra, T., Van Jaarsveld, H., & Ten Brinke, S. (1998). Interlingual homograph recognition: Effects of task demands and language intermixing. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1, 51-66.
12. Dijkstra, T., Moscoso del Prado Martín, F., Schulpen, B., Schreuder, R., & Baayen, R. (2005). A roommate in cream: Morphological family size effects on interlingual homograph recognition. Language and Cognitive Processes, 20, 7-41.
13. Durgunoglu, A. Y., & Verhoeven, L. (Eds.). (1998). Literacy development in a multilingual context: Cross-cultural perspectives. Mahwah, NJ : Erlbaum.
14. Francis, W. S. (2005). Bilingual semantic and conceptual representation. In J. F. Kroll & A. M. B. De Groot (Eds.), Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (pp. 251-267). Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press.
15. Kroll, J. F., & Tokowicz, N. (2005). Models of bilingual representation and processing: Looking back and to the future. In J. F. Kroll & A. M. B. de Groot (Eds.), Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (pp. 531-554). Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press.
16. Krott, A., & Nicoladis, E. (2005). Large constituent families help children parse compounds. Journal of Child Language, 32, 139-158.
17. Lüdeling, A., & De Jong, N. H. (2002). German particle verbs and word-formation. In N. Dehé, R. Jackendoff, A. McIntyre, & S. Urban (Eds.). Verb-particle explorations (pp. 315-333). Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter.
18. Moscoso del Prado Martín, F., Bertram, R., Häikiö, T., Schreuder, R., & Baayen, R. H. (2004). Morphological family size in a morphologically rich language: The case of Finnish compared to Dutch and Hebrew. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 1271-1278.
19. Moscoso del Prado Martín, F., Deutsch, A., Frost, R., Schreuder, R., De Jong, N. H., & Baayen, R. H. (2005). Changing places: A cross-language perspective on frequency and family size in Dutch and Hebrew. Journal of Memory and Language, 53, 496-512.
20. Nicoladis, E., & Krott, A. (2007). Word family size and French-speaking children's segmentation of existing compounds. Language Learning, 57, 201-228.
21. Perfetti, C. A., & Hart, L. (2001). The lexical quality hypothesis. In L. Verhoeven, C. Elbro, & P. Reitsma (Eds.), Precursors of functional literacy (pp. 189-214). Amsterdam : John Benjamins.
22. Schlichting, L. (2005). Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-III-NL. Amsterdam : Harcourt Test Publisher.
23. Schneider, W., Eschman, A., & Zuccolotto, A. (2002).E-Prime user's guide. Pittsburgh, PA : Psychology Software Tools Inc.
24. Schreuder, R., & Baayen, R. H. (1997). How complex simplex words can be. Journal of Memory and Language, 37, 118-139.
25. Schrooten, W., & A. Vermeer (1994). Woorden in het basisonderwijs. 15.000 woorden aangeboden aan leerlingen[Words in elementary school. 15, 000 words presented to elementary school children]. (Studies in meertaligheid 6). Tilburg, Netherlands : Tilburg University Press.
26. Van Loon-Vervoorn, W. A. (1985). Voorstelbaarheidswaarden van Nederlandse woorden: 4600 substantieven, 1000 verba en 500 adjectieven. [Imageability values of Dutch words: 4600 nouns, 1000 verbs and 500 adjectives]. Lisse, Netherlands : Swets en Zeitlinger.
27. Verhoeven, L. (1995). Drie-Minuten-Toets. [Three Minutes Test]. Arnhem, Netherlands : CITO.
28. Vermeer, A. (2001). Breadth and depth of vocabulary in relation to L1/L2 acquisition and frequency of input. Applied Psycholinguistics, 22, 217-234.