MORPHOLOGICAL (STRUCTURAL) PRIMING WITH SERBIAN PREFIXED VERBS

The main aim of this paper is to discover whether there exists the so-called morphological, or structural, priming during the process of visual recognition of Serbian verbs with or without prefixes. Therefore, a small-scale psycholinguistic experiment was conducted among the senior students of the English Department at the Faculty of Philosophy. What was actually tested here was whether the appearance of one morphological structure, in our case a Serbian verb with or without a prefix or prefixes, within the context of word snakes would influence our interviewees to take more or less time to visually recognise the verb with the same morphological characteristics. The result that was expected before the experiment itself included, among other things, the fact that one structure will facilitate the recognition of another, regardless of the meaning which has for a very long been the most important and an unavoidable part when priming is being discussed.