Abstract
An experiment was conducted to see if morphological processing of S-K words can be enhanced through training. Thirty-six students were asked to memorize 20 rare words with word-level or morpheme-level definitions. Morpheme-level definitions were expected to make the words semantically transparent more than word-level definitions. After two sessions of training, the go/no-go lexical decision task was performed for the words studied in the training sessions. The words trained with the morpheme definitions were responded faster than the ones with the word definitions. The pattern of the mean error rates was parallel to that of mean RTs. In sum, the results suggest that studying words with the focus on morphemes contributes to making them more semantically transparent, and, as a natural consequence, improving their recognition.
