کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
930115 1474411 2015 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Vowelling and semantic priming effects in Arabic
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
اثرات واژنی و معنایی در زبان عربی
کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
چکیده انگلیسی


• Arabic vowelled words elicit larger N1 and N2 component than Arabic unvowelled words.
• Slower RTs and larger N400 components to semantically unrelated than related words
• Semantic priming effects are not different for vowelled and unvowelled Arabic words.

In the present experiment we used a semantic judgment task with Arabic words to determine whether semantic priming effects are found in the Arabic language. Moreover, we took advantage of the specificity of the Arabic orthographic system, which is characterized by a shallow (i.e., vowelled words) and a deep orthography (i.e., unvowelled words), to examine the relationship between orthographic and semantic processing. Results showed faster Reaction Times (RTs) for semantically related than unrelated words with no difference between vowelled and unvowelled words. By contrast, Event Related Potentials (ERPs) revealed larger N1 and N2 components to vowelled words than unvowelled words suggesting that visual-orthographic complexity taxes the early word processing stages. Moreover, semantically unrelated Arabic words elicited larger N400 components than related words thereby demonstrating N400 effects in Arabic. Finally, the Arabic N400 effect was not influenced by orthographic depth. The implications of these results for understanding the processing of orthographic, semantic, and morphological structures in Modern Standard Arabic are discussed.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Journal of Psychophysiology - Volume 95, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 46–55
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