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The role of hyphens at the constituent boundary in compound word identification
1Centre for Learning Research & Department of Teacher Education, University of Turku, Finland. rayber@utu.fi
Abstract:
The current eye-movement study investigated whether a salient segmentation cue like the hyphen facilitates the identification of long and short compound words. The study was conducted in Finnish, where compound words exist in great abundance. The results showed that long hyphenated compounds (musiikki-ilta) are identified faster than concatenated ones (yllätystulos), but short hyphenated compounds (ilta-asu) are identified slower than their concatenated counterparts (kesäsää). This pattern of results is explained by the visual acuity principle (
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