This dissertation investigates the mental representation of the root in the Moroccan dialect of spoken Arabic. While morphemes like roots have traditionally been defined as the smallest unit of sound-meaning correspondence, this definition has been long known to be problematic (…
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It has been demonstrated that in early visual word processing, monolingual speakers process morphologically complex words in terms of their constituent morphemes (e.g., hunt+er), irrespective of the semantic relationship between stem and suffix (e.g., corn+er) (e.g., Longtin, Se…
Although lexical priming is claimed to provide a way 'forward' for textual critical discourse analysis (CDA) to update its paradigm (Hoey, 2004), not many priming CDA studies have yet been undertaken. Recent CDA research has just begun to appreciate the phenomenon but failed to …
From the earliest works on there has been no clear explanation on what affects voter decisions at the state level. Is it a combination of presidential coattails and national factors, or does it truly rely on state factors? I present an alternative theory of voter choice for gube…
In this thesis different data were analyzed, including behavioural performance (speed and accuracy), fMRI brain activation, and modelling simulation, to investigate the underlying processes in perceptual and symbolic, masked and unmasked magnitude priming. The perceptual stimuli…
Across two experiments, the paradox of religiosity and prejudice was examined through priming methods in a laboratory setting. The effects of priming religiosity (religious, control) and religious group membership (Christian, Muslim, atheist) on resource distributions (Experimen…