BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16713-1e192be928a3cc97f6963909124a58bc@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260522T123745Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190322T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190322T163000 SUMMARY:Talk by Vera Heyer DESCRIPTION:The Orthography of Morphology: Surface Form Effects in L2 Wo rd Recognition and Spelling\n\nRecent masked priming studies have sugges ted that L2 speakers rely more heavily on orthography during written wor d recognition\, while L1 speakers primarily use morphology (e.g.\, Heyer &\; Clahsen\, 2015\; Li\, Taft\, &\; Xu\, 2017). The present talk presents data looking at the use of orthographic information in L2 proc essing from two angles: First\, a masked priming study investigated whet her orthographic effects are located on the lexical level (resulting fro m co-activation of entries sharing letters: \;surface \;→ \; surfer\, \;surf\, \;surreal \;etc.) or on the surface form l evel (i.e.\, individual letters activate all entries containing these le tters\, with delayed de-activation of non-target entries in L2 compared to L1)\, using nonword primes. Second\, a novel word spelling task teste d whether L2ers are sensitive to morpho-graphic spelling regularities (e .g.\, word-final /əs/ is consistently spelt ‹ous› for adjectives\, while being spelt differently for other lexical categories: \;famous  \;vs. \;bonus).\n\nThe results indicate that orthography plays a cru cial role in L2 acquisition and processing. In instructed L2 acquisition \, learners are exposed to written forms from the beginning\, thus givin g them a head-start in consolidating orthographic representations within lexical entries and in noticing morpho-graphic spelling regularities\, while\, in L1 acquisition\, the orthographic representation is added lat er.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/talk-by-vera-he yer/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Orthography of Morphology: Surface Form Effects in L2 Word Recogn ition and Spelling

Recent masked priming studies have s uggested that L2 speakers rely more heavily on orthography during writte n word recognition, while L1 speakers primarily use morphology (e.g., He yer & Clahsen, 2015; Li, Taft, & Xu, 2017). The present talk pre sents data looking at the use of orthographic information in L2 processi ng from two angles: First, a masked priming study investigated whether o rthographic effects are located on the lexical level (resulting from co- activation of entries sharing letters: surface → < i>surfer, surf, surreal etc.) or on the surface form level (i.e., individual letters activate all entries conta ining these letters, with delayed de-activation of non-target entries in L2 compared to L1), using nonword primes. Second, a novel word spelling task tested whether L2ers are sensitive to morpho-graphic spelling regu larities (e.g., word-final /əs/ is consistently spelt ‹ous› for adjectiv es, while being spelt differently for other lexical categories:  famous vs. bonus).

The results indicate that orthography plays a crucial role in L2 acquisition and processing. In in structed L2 acquisition, learners are exposed to written forms from the beginning, thus giving them a head-start in consolidating orthographic r epresentations within lexical entries and in noticing morpho-graphic spe lling regularities, while, in L1 acquisition, the orthographic represent ation is added later.

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