TY - JOUR
T1 - Is inhibition involved in the processing of opaque compound words?
T2 - A study of individual differences
AU - Park, Juana
AU - Sana, Faria
AU - Gagné, Christina L.
AU - Spalding, Thomas L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© John Benjamins Publishing Company.
PY - 2020/11/6
Y1 - 2020/11/6
N2 - We examined whether inhibition skills were recruited during the processing of compound words. Using an individual differences perspective, we analyzed whether participants' scores on the Stroop test predicted performance on lexical decision tasks involving compound words varying in their level of semantic opacity. The results show that inhibition is involved in the comprehension of fully opaque (e.g., hogwash) and fully transparent (e.g., blueberry) compound words, but we found no evidence for such an effect in the comprehension of partially opaque compound words (e.g., strawberry, jailbird).
AB - We examined whether inhibition skills were recruited during the processing of compound words. Using an individual differences perspective, we analyzed whether participants' scores on the Stroop test predicted performance on lexical decision tasks involving compound words varying in their level of semantic opacity. The results show that inhibition is involved in the comprehension of fully opaque (e.g., hogwash) and fully transparent (e.g., blueberry) compound words, but we found no evidence for such an effect in the comprehension of partially opaque compound words (e.g., strawberry, jailbird).
KW - Compound words
KW - Individual differences
KW - Inhibition
KW - Opaque
KW - Semantic transparency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85096056832&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1075/ml.19011.par
DO - 10.1075/ml.19011.par
M3 - Journal Article
AN - SCOPUS:85096056832
SN - 1871-1340
VL - 15
SP - 258
EP - 294
JO - Mental Lexicon
JF - Mental Lexicon
IS - 2
ER -