MORPHOLOGY: SURVEY / EXPERIMENT

You need to present the following words to three native English speakers and three non-native English speakers in the following order.

Instructions: Many English words are made up of different parts. For example, dogs has two parts dog + s. And reread has two parts re + read. How many parts do you see in each of these words?

  1. unreliable
  2. reception
  3. phenomenological
  4. undifferentiated
  5. extraterrestrial
  6. reinvention
  7. representation
  8. inattention
  9. inception
  10. conceptually
  11. characterization
  12. nonproliferation

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Data Analysis: Calculate the average number of parts (morphemes) the native and non-native speakers gave for each of the 8 words. What differences did you find, and what do you think they are due to? Was the order of presentation relevant?