Breaking down prefixed words is unaffected by morphological boundary opacity: Evidence from behavioral and MEG experiments

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Behavioral and MEG experiments reveal robust morphological decomposition in Tagalog, suggesting flexible word recognition mechanisms.

Prefixed words are decomposed into morphemes, even when boundary changes obscure their identities.
Behavioral priming data from Experiment 1 supports flexible morphological decomposition under varied conditions.
Magnetoencephalography data in Experiment 2 shows neural response is influenced by transition probabilities of word segments.
Findings support that early form-based recognition is adaptable to morphophonological variations.

Cayado et al. (2025) studied this question.

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