RT Journal Article
T1 Morphological effects in word identification: tracking the developmental trajectory of derivational suffixes in Spanish
A1 Lázaro López-Villaseñor, Miguel
A1 Illera, Víctor
A1 Acha, Joana
A1 Escalonilla, Ainoa
A1 García, Seila
A1 Sainz Sánchez, Francisco Javier
AB The role of morphological processing has been shown to be highly relevant in learning to read. However, there is little evidence on the processing ofderivational suffixes from a developmental perspective. The aim of this study is to assess the developmental emergence of suffixes as meaningful processing units inword recognition. To that aim, 96 children from fourth, fifth and sixth grade, as well as adults, took part in a masked priming lexical decision task (go/no-go version).Complex and simple words were primed by other words sharing the suffix (as in lechero/milkman/-[ jornalero/laborer/) and word ending (as in araña/spider/-[España/Spain/) or by words not sharing an ending (surfista/surfer/-[jornalero/ laborer/; carpeta/folder/-[España/Spain/). Results in adults replicate previousstudies by showing that only the related condition of complex words elicits a significant facilitation (see Dun˜abeitia, Perea, & Carreiras, 2008). With respect tochildren, only sixth graders generated a similar pattern to adults. Children in fourth and fifth grade showed no morphological effect. Our data reveal a progressive
PB Springer
SN 0922-4777
YR 2018
FD 2018-05-12
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120446
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120446
LA eng
NO Lázaro, M., Illera, V., Acha, J., Escalonilla, A., García, S., & Sainz, J. S. (2018). Morphological effects in word identification: Tracking the developmental trajectory of derivational suffixes in Spanish. Reading and Writing, 31(7), 1669-1684. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-018-9858-1
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2026