Moreover, Setswana has "pseudo-derived nouns", which look as if they are derived from a verb, but are in fact not morphologically or semantically related to a verb (kgabo-gaba ‘large fire-pull stomach in’). Setswana Class 9 derivations are not readily segmentable into an obvious stem and affix (tsheko-seka ‘court case-stand trial’) in contrast to other noun classes such as Class 1, where the prefix mo- and suffix -i transparently indicate deverbal nouns (e.g. This paper contributes to this debate by investigating deverbative nouns in Setswana, a Bantu language.
Current research on morphological processing focuses on the question of whether the morphological structure of a complex word like neat-ness plays a role in processing or whether morphological effects can be reduced to the combined effects of shared forms and meanings (e.g. Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, UK, Keywords: Derivational processing Setswana visual word recognition masked priming. The Role of Morphological Structure in the Processing of Complex Forms: Evidence from Setswana Deverbative Nouns Naledi Kgolo1, Sonja Eisenbeiss1, Nancy Kula1 1. Importantly, our results also suggest a gender stereotype asymmetry in that male and female stereotypes affected the processing of pronouns differently. Overall, these results provide further evidence for on-line effects of stereotypical gender in language comprehension. However, this effect was observed for female, but not male participants. In addition, a P300-like effect was found when the pronoun was preceded by definitionally incongruent primes.
An N400-like effect on the pronoun emerged when it was preceded by a definitionally incongruent prime (passeggeraFEM – lui pensionatoMASC – lei), and a stereotypically incongruent prime for masculine pronouns only (insegnante – lui). Using eventrelated brain potentials (ERPs), we examined the brain response to third-person pronouns (lei ‘‘she’’ and lui ‘‘he’’) that were implicitly primed by definitional (passeggeraFEM ‘‘passenger’’, pensionatoMASC ‘‘pensioner’’), or stereotypical antecedents (insegnante ‘‘teacher’’, conducente ‘‘driver’’). Despite the widely documented influence of gender stereotypes on social behaviour, little is known about the electrophysiological substrates engaged in the processing of such information when conveyed by language.
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