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| Research article summary (published 30 Mar 2002): |
The processing and representation of Dutch and English compounds: peripheral morphological and central orthographic effects.
Full Abstract
In this study, we use the association between various measures of the morphological family and decision latencies to reveal the way in which the components of Dutch and English compounds are processed. The results show that for constituents of concatenated compounds in both languages, a position-related token count of the morphological family plays a role, whereas English open compounds show an effect of a type count, similar to the effect of family size for simplex words. When Dutch compounds are written with an artificial space, they reveal no effect of type count, which shows that the differential effect for the English open compounds is not superficial. The final experiment provides converging evidence for the lexical consequences of the space in English compounds. Decision latencies for English simplex words are better predicted from counts of the morphological family that include concatenated and hyphenated but not open family members.Copyright 2001 Elsevier Science (USA).
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Author/s: de Jong, Nivja H (NH); Feldman, Laurie B (LB); Schreuder, Robert (R); Pastizzo, Matthew (M); Baayen, R Harald (RH);
Affiliation: Interfaculty Research Unit for Language & Speech, and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nymegen, The Netherlands. nivja.dejong@mpi.nl
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Brain and language (Brain Lang), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: -2002 Apr-Jun; vol 81 (issue 1-3) : pp 555-67
Dates: Created 2002/06/25; Completed 2002/07/25; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12081422, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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