Marcus Taft

Publications

Books

Taft, M. (1991). Reading and the mental lexicon. Hove, U.K.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.[Japanese translation by Hatta, T., Hirose,T., and Kawakami, A., 1995]
Sandra, D., & Taft, M. (1994). (Eds.) Morphological structure, lexical representation and lexical access. Hove, U.K.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Other

Lexical Access, Cognitive Psychology of. Entry in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. 2001, N. J. Smelser, & P. B. Baltes (Eds-in-Chief).

Chapters in books and articles in refereed journals

Liang, A., & Taft, M. (2020). The relationship between L2 phonological processing and early musical training in adult bilinguals. Music & Science, 3, 1-11. DOI: doi.org/10.1177/2059204320919285
Beyersmann, E., Grainger, J., & Taft, M. (2019). Evidence for embedded word length effects in complex nonwords. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1659989
Taft, M. & Li, S. (2019). It’s hard to be talented: What possessional adjectives tell us about lexical representation. The Mental Lexicon, 14 (1), 124-151. DOI: doi.org/10.1075/ml.18011.taf
Li, J., Taft, M., Zhu, J., & Zhang, B. (2019). A difference in processing prefixed and suffixed words by Chinese EFL Learners. Modern Foreign Languages, 42, 623-635 [in Chinese]
Li, J. & Taft, M. (2019). The processing of English prefixed words by Chinese-English bilinguals. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1-11. DOI: doi:10.1017/S0272263119000172
Taft, M., Li, S., & Beyersmann, E. (2018). What cross-morphemic letter transposition in derived nonwords tells us about lexical processing. Journal of Cognition, 1(1), 36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.39.
Beyersmann, E., Kezilas, Y., Coltheart, M., Castles, A., Ziegler, J.C., Taft, M., & Grainger, J. (2018). Taking the book from the bookshelf: Masked constituent priming effects in compound words and nonwords. Journal of Cognition, 1(1): 10, pp. 1–13, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.11.
Zhou, J., Ma, G., Li, X., & Taft, M. (2018). The time course of incremental word processing during Chinese reading. Reading & Writing, 31, 607–625. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-017-9800-y.
Li, J, Taft, M., & Xu, J. (2017). The processing of English derived words by Chinese-English bilinguals. Language Learning, 67, 858-884.
Álvarez, C. J., Taft, M., & Hernández-Cabrera, J. A. (2017). Syllabic strategy as opposed to coda optimization in the segmentation of Spanish letter-strings using word spotting. Scientific Studies of Reading, 21, 99-108.
Tao, L. & Taft, M. (2017). Influences of cognitive processing capacities on speech perception in young adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 266.
Tao, L., & Taft, M. (2017). Effects of early home language environment on perception and production of speech. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20, 1030-1044.
Taft, M., Xu, J., & Li, S. (2017). Letter coding in visual word recognition: The impact of embedded words. Journal of Memory and Language, 92, 14–25.
Álvarez, C. J., Garciá-Saavedra, G., Luque, J. L., & Taft, M. (2016). Syllabic parsing in children: A developmental study using visual word-spotting in Spanish. Journal of Child Language [doi: 10.1017/S0305123916000040]
Taft, M. (2015). The nature of lexical representation in visual word recognition. In A. Pollatsek, & R. Treiman (Eds.) Handbook on Reading. Pp. 99-113. New York: Oxford University Press.
Tao, L., Taft, M., & Gollan, T. (2015). The bilingual switching advantage: Sometimes related to bilingual proficiency, sometimes not. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 21, 531–544.
Xu, J., & Taft, M. (2015). The effects of semantic transparency and base frequency on the recognition of English complex words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 904-910.
Taft, M., & Álvarez, C.J. (2014). Coda optimization in the segmentation of English polysyllabic letter-strings. Experimental Psychology, 61, 488-494.
Xu, J., & Taft, M. (2014). Solely soles: Inter-lemma competition in inflected word recognition. Journal of Memory & Language, 76, 127-140.
Taft, M., & Krebs-Lazendic, L. (2013). The role of orthographic syllable structure in assigning letters to their position in visual word recognition. Journal of Memory & Language, 68, 85-97.
Taft, M., & Nillsen, C. (2013). Morphological decomposition and the transposed-letter (TL) position effect. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28, 917-938.
Lee, C.H., & Taft, M. (2011). Subsyllabic structure reflected in letter confusability effects in Korean word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 18, 129-134.
Tao, L., Marzecová, A., Taft, M., Asanowicz, D., & Wodniecka, Z. (2011). The efficiency of attentional networks in early and late bilinguals: the role of age of acquisition. Frontiers in Psychology, 2 (123), doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00123.
Taft M (2011) Orthographic influences when processing spoken pseudowords: Theoretical implications. Frontiers in Psychology, 2 (140), doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00140.
Taft, M., Kacanas, D., Huen, W., & Chan, R. (2011). An empirical demonstration of contrastive rhetoric: Preference for rhetorical structure depends on one's first language. Intercultural Pragmatics, 8, 503-516.
Nguyen-Hoan, M. & Taft, M.(2010). The impact of a subordinate L1 on L2 auditory processing in adult bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 13(2), 217–230.
Taft, M., & Nguyen-Hoan, M. (2010). A sticky stick: The locus of morphological representation in the lexicon. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 277-296.
Lee, C. H., Taft, M. (2009). Are onsets and codas important in processing letter position? A comparison of TL effects in English and Korean. Journal of Memory and Language. 60, 530–542.
Taft, M., Castles, A., Davis, C., Lazendic, G., & Nguyen-Hoan, M. (2008). Automatic activation of orthography in spoken word recognition: Pseudohomograph priming. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 366–379.
Myers, J., Taft, M., & Chou, P. (2007). Character recognition without sound or meaning. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 35, 1-57.
Taft, M., Álvarez, C.J., & Carreiras, M (2007). Cross-language differences in the use of internal orthographic structure when reading polysyllabic words. The Mental Lexicon, 2, 49-63.
Taft, M. (2006). Processing of characters by native Chinese readers. In P. Li, L.H. Tan, E. Bates, O.J.L. Tzeng (Eds.) Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Volume 1: Chinese). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Taft, M. (2006). A localist-cum-distributed (LCD) framework for lexical processing. In S.M. Andrews. From inkmarks to ideas: Current issues in lexical processing. Psychology Press.
Taft, M. (2006). Orthographically influenced abstract phonological representation: Evidence from non-rhotic speakers. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 35, 67-78.
Taft, M. & Ardasinski (2006). Obligatory decomposition in reading prefixed words. The Mental Lexicon, 1, 183-199.
Davis, C. J., & Taft, M. (2005). More Words in the Neighborhood: Interference in Lexical Decision Due to Deletion Neighbors. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, 904-910.
Matsushita, T., Taft, M., & Tamaoka, K. (2004). Chuugokugo o shitteiru koto wa Nihongo Kanjigo no hatsuon-gakushuu ni yakudatsu ka? [Is it useful to know Chinese 'words'when learning Japanese Kanji pronunciation?] In Kinen ronbunshuu henshuu iinkai (Ed.) Hirai Katsutoshi kyoju taikan kinen Chuugokugaku-Nihongogaku ronbunshuu [Papers in the Study of Chinese and Japanese Linguistics in honour of Professor Katsutoshi Hirai]. Pp.578-590. Tokyo: Hakuteisha. [in Japanese]
Kim, J., Taft, M. & Davis, C. (2004). Orthographic and phonological links in the lexicon: When lexical and sublexical information conflict. Reading and Writing, 17, 187-218
Taft, M. (2004). Morphological decomposition and the reverse base frequency effect. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57A, 745-765
Taft, M. & Kougious, P. (2004). The processing of morpheme-like units in monomorphemic words. Brain and Language, 90, 9-16
Ding, G., Peng, D., & Taft, M. (2004). The Nature of the Mental Representation of Radicals in Chinese: A Priming Study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 530-539 .
Taft, M. (2003). Morphological representation as a correlation between form and meaning. In E. Assink, & D. Sandra (Eds.) Reading complex words. Pp. 113-137. Amsterdam: Kluwer.
Taft, M. (2002). Orthographic processing of polysyllabic words by native and non-native English speakers. Brain and Language, 81, 532-544.
Alonzo, A., & Taft, M. (2002). Sonority Constraints on Onset-Rime Cohesion: Evidence from Native and Bilingual Filipino Readers of English. Brain and Language, 81, 368-383.
Álvarez, C.J., Carreiras, M., & Taft, M. (2001). Syllables and morphemes: Contrasting frequency effects in Spanish. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 545-555.
Rouibah, A., & Taft, M. (2001). The functional role of syllabic structure in French visual word recognition: The BOSS hypothesis revisited. Memory & Cognition, 29, 373-381.
Taft, M. (2001). Processing of orthographic structure by adults of different reading ability. Language and Speech, 44, 351-376.
Ding, G, Taft, M., & Zhu, X. (2000). The representation of radicals that can be used as characters. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 32, 21-26.
Peng, D., Xu, S., Taft, M., & Liu Y. (2000). The polyphone effect in the identification of Chinese two-character words. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 32, 42-46. [in Chinese].
Taft, M., Zhu, X., & Ding, G. (2000). The relationship between character and radical representation in Chinese. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 32, 1-12.
Taft, M., Liu, Y., & Zhu, X. (1999). Morphemic processing in reading Chinese. In A. Inhoff, J. Wang, & H.-C. Chen (Eds.) Reading Chinese script: A cognitive analysis. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Peng, D., Ding, G., Wang, C., Taft, M., & Zhu, X. (1999). The processing of Chinese reversible words: The role of morphemes in lexical access. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 31, 36-46. [in Chinese].
Zhou, X, Marslen-Wilson, W., Taft, M., & Shu, H. (1999). Morphology, orthography, and phonology in reading Chinese compound words. Language and Cognitive Processes, 14, 525-565.
Taft, M., & Chung, K. (1999). Using radicals in teaching Chinese characters to naive learners. Psychologia, 42, 243-251.
Taft, M., Zhu, X, & Peng, D. (1999). Positional specificity of radicals in Chinese character recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 498-519.
Taft, M., & Meunier, F. (1998). Lexical representation of gender. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 27, 23-45.
Taft, M., & van Graan, F. (1998). Lack of phonological mediation in a semantic judgement task. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, 203-224.
Taft, M., & Zhu, X. (1997). Using masked priming to examine lexical storage of Chinese compound words. In H.-C. Chen (Ed). The cognitive processing of Chinese and related Asian languages. HK: Chinese University Press.
Taft, M., & Zhu, X. (1997). A model of lexical processing: Orthography, Phonology, and Morphology. In D.Peng, H. Shu, & H.-C. Chen (Eds.) Cognitive research on Chinese language. Jinan, PRC: Shandong Education Press [in Chinese].
Kim, J., & Taft, M. (1997). Lexical Processing in Reading Comprehension. In Jung-Mo Lee & Jaeho Lee (Eds.). Current Issues in Cognitive Psychology (II): Language and Cognition. Seoul: Hakjisa Co. [in Korean]
Colé, P., Segui, J., & Taft, M. (1997). Words and morphemes as units for lexical access. Journal of Memory and Language, 37, 312-330.
Taft, M., & Zhu, X. (1997). Sub-morphemic processing in reading Chinese. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23, 761-775.
Taft, M. & Zhu, X. (1995). The representation of bound morphemes in the lexicon: A Chinese study. In L. Feldman. (Ed.) Morphological aspects of language processing. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Taft, M., & Radeau, M. (1995). The influence of the phonological characteristics of a language on the functional units of reading: A study in French. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 49, 330-346.
Taft, M. (1994). Interactive-activation as a framework for understanding morphological processing. Language and Cognitive Processes, 9, 271-294.
Taft, M. (1994). Using the interactive-activation framework to explain Chinese character and word recognition. In H.-W. Chang, J.T. Huang, C.-W. Hue, & O. Tzeng (Eds.) Advances in the study of Chinese language processing. Volume 1. Taipei: Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University.
Taft, M., Huang, J, & Zhu, X. (1994). The influence of character frequency on word recognition responses in Chinese. In H.-W. Chang, J.T. Huang, C.-W. Hue, & O. Tzeng (Eds.) Advances in the study of Chinese language processing. Volume 1. Taipei: Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University.
Zhu, X., & Taft, M. (1994). The influence of perceptual experience on Chinese character processing. In H.-W. Chang, J.T. Huang, C.-W. Hue, & O. Tzeng (Eds.) Advances in the study of Chinese language processing. Volume 1. Taipei: Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University.
Zhu, X., & Taft, M. (1994). Holistic or component processing? Evidence from Chinese word and character recognition. In Q. Jing, H. Zhang, & D. Peng (Eds.) Information processing of Chinese language. Beijing: Beijing Normal University Publishing Company.
Forster, K.I., & Taft, M. (1994). Bodies, antibodies, and neighborhood density effects in masked form priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 844-863.
Tamaoka, K., & Taft, M. (1994). Is the smallest unit in phonological processing equivalent to the smallest unit in orthographic processing? Lexical judgments of Katakana nonwords. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 65, 377-382. [In Japanese].
Taft, M. & Ang, L. (1992). The impact of initial letters on brand name recall. In J. Misumi, B. Wilpert, & H. Motoaki (Eds.) Organizational and work psychology. Hove, U.K.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Taft, M. & Chen, H.C. (1992). Judging homophony in Chinese: The influence of tones. In H.C. Chen, & O. Tzeng (Eds.) Language processing in Chinese. Amsterdam: North-Holland/Elsevier
Taft, M. (1992). The body of the BOSS: Sub-syllabic units in the lexical processing of polysyllabic words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18, 1004-1014.
Taft, M., & Russell, B. (1992). Pseudohomophone naming and the word frequency effect. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 45A, 51-71.
Taft, M. (1991). Lexical access codes in visual and auditory word recognition. In K.M.McConkey, & N.W.Bond, (Eds.) Readings in Australian psychology, Sydney: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.
Taft, M. (1990). Lexical processing of functionally constrained words. Journal of Memory and Language, 29, 245-257.
Taft, M. (1988). A morphological-decomposition model of lexical representation. Linguistics, 26, 657-667.
Taft, M. (1987). Morphographic processing. The BOSS re-emerges. In M. Coltheart (Ed.) Attention & Performance XII, London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Taft, M. (1986). Lexical access codes in visual and auditory word recognition. Language & Cognitive Processes, 1, 49-60.
Taft, M., & Hambly, G. (1986). Exploring the Cohort Model of spoken word recognition. Cognition, 22, 259-282.
Taft. M., Hambly, G., & Kinoshita, S. (1986). Visual and auditory recognition of prefixed words. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Experimental Psychology, 38A, 351-366.
Taft, M. (1985). The decoding of words in lexical access; A review of the morphographic approach. In D. Besner, T.G.Waller, & G.E. MacKinnon (Eds.) Reading research: Advances in theory and practice, Vol. V., New York: Academic Press.
Kinoshita, S., Taft, M., & Taplin. J.E. (1985). Non word facilitation in a lexical decision task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 11, 346-362.
Taft, M. (1985). The lexical account of word naming considered further. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8.
Taft, M., & Hambly, G. (1985). The influence of orthography on phonological representations in the lexicon. Journal of Memory & Language, 24, 320-335.
Taft, M. (1984). Evidence for an abstract lexical representation of word structure. Memory & Cognition, 12, 264-269.
Taft, M. (1984). Exploring the mental lexicon. Australian Journal of Psychology, 36, 35-46.
Taft, M. (1982). An alternative to grapheme-phoneme conversion rules? Memory & Cognition, 10, 465-474.
Taft, M. (1981). Prefix stripping revisited. Journal of verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 20, 289-297.
Taft, M. (1979). Recognition of affixed words and the word frequency effect. Memory & Cognition, 7, 263-272.
Taft, M. (1979). Lexical access via an orthographic code: The Basic Orthographic Syllabic Structure (BOSS). Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 18, 21-39.
Taft, M., & Forster, K.I. (1976). Lexical storage and retrieval of polymorphemic and polysyllabic words. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 15, 607-620.
Taft, M., Forster, K.I. (1975). Lexical storage and retrieval of prefixed words. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 14, 638-647.