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Title: The Impact of Orthography on Lexical Access: The Case of Capitalization and Word Category Information in L1 and L2 German
Language: English
Authors: Opitz, Andreas (ORCID 0000-0002-1494-7591), Bordag, Denisa
Source: Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Sep 2022 44(4):1194-1209.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 16
Publication Date: 2022
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, German, Cues, Priming, Morphology (Languages), Writing Skills, Nouns, Grammar, Ambiguity (Semantics), Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263121000711
ISSN: 0272-2631
1470-1545
Abstract: Previous research has shown that orthographic marking may have a function beyond identifying orthographic word forms. In two visual priming experiments with native speakers and advanced learners of German (Czech natives) we tested the hypothesis that orthography can convey word-class cues comparable to morphological marking. We examined the effect of initial letter capitalization of nouns (a specific property of German orthography) on the processing of five homonymous and grammatically ambiguous forms. Both populations showed the same pattern of results: deverbal nouns (conversions) patterned together with countable nouns while in a previous study (with eliminated orthographic word-class cues) they patterned together with infinitives. Together, findings suggest that orthographic cues can trigger word-class-specific lexical retrieval/access. They also suggest a lexical entry structure in which conversion nouns, infinitives, and inflected verbal forms share a category-neutral parent node and that specified subnodes are accessed only when specifying cues are available and/or necessary for processing.
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