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Nivja H de Jong1, Laurie B Feldman, Robert Schreuder
1Interfaculty Research Unit for Language & Speech, and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nymegen, The Netherlands. nivja.dejong@mpi.nl
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.
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