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Deceptive Transparency in Croatian Speakers of English

This paper studies written language processing in speakers of two languages which differ in their morphological richness, namely Croatian as L1 and English as L2, and the existence of deceptive transparency in such processing. Deceptive transparency is defined as the phenomenon according to which L2 learners are prone to misinterpret word meaning based on the word’s deceptive morphological structure (Laufer, 1997). The participants in this study were given sets of morphologically and semantically related (derived) and unrelated (deceptively transparent) word pairs in both languages. They were required to decide whether the words in each pair were related. Reaction times were measured and compared. Implications related to the organization of the mental lexicon and lexical access in Croatian speakers of English are discussed.

deceptive transparency; morphology; written language processing; Croatian; English

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