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As the popularity of sending messages electronically increased, so did the
necessity of conveying messages more efficiently. A popular way of increasing efficiency
is to use shortcuts such as gr8 “great” or cu “see you”. The aim of the study was to
investigate whether such abbreviations have their own lexical representations or whether
they are recorded into the words they stand for. We used associative masked and overt
priming in lexical decision tasks. Primes were text shortcuts and their corresponding
words. Targets were words that were associatively related to the prime (e.g., cu/see you –
GOODBYE), associatively related to a part of the prime (e.g., cu/see you – LOOK) or
unrelated to the prime and any part of the prime (e.g., 4u/for you – GOODBYE; 4u/for
you – LOOK). In both tasks, responses were faster to targets preceded by related
compared to unrelated primes (shortcuts and words). In the overt priming task, we in
addition found faster responses when the target was related to a part of the prime.
However, this effect was present only for word but not for shortcut primes. These results
indicate that shortcuts have their own lexical representations that are independent of the
representations of the individual words they replace.
