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| Research article summary (published 27 Feb 2003): |
Prosody-assisted head-driven access to spoken German compounds.
Full Abstract
Auditory processing of German 2-noun compound words was investigated with 328 participants in 4 experiments by monitoring semantic priming effects of the left constituents of the compound words. The authors demonstrated that there is no primacy of the left constituents in accessing auditorily presented German compound words in the mental lexicon. A clear priming effect of left constituents occurred only for compound words with a transparent right constituent that is the head of compound words in Germanic languages. The data suggest that the access to German compounds in the auditory domain involves 2 temporally overlapping routes:
direct and decompositional. The prosodic structure (i.e., the duration) of the first morphemes of compound words appears to be a determining factor for activation of the decompositional route.
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Author information
Author/s: Isel, Frédéric (F); Gunter, Thomas C (TC); Friederici, Angela D (AD);
Affiliation: Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany. isel(-atsign-)cns.mpg.de
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Mar; vol 29 (issue 2) : pp 277-88
Dates: Created 2003/04/16; Completed 2003/09/29; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12696815, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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