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Compound word effects differ in reading, on-line naming, and delayed naming tasks

A W Inhoff1, D Briihl, J Schwartz

  • 1Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, NY 13902-6000. nhoff@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu

Memory & Cognition
|July 1, 1996
PubMed
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Reading compound words like "blueberry" involves longer viewing times but faster naming. This suggests constituent word activation is separate from overall meaning processing.

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Understanding how the human brain processes complex words is crucial for psycholinguistics.
  • Compound words, formed by combining two or more morphemes (e.g., blueberry), present unique processing challenges compared to suffixed or simple words.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the processing of bimorphemic compound words versus bimorphemic suffixed words and monomorphemic controls.
  • To compare word-viewing durations and naming latencies to understand different stages of word recognition.

Main Methods:

  • Participants read bimorphemic compound words, bimorphemic suffixed words, and monomorphemic control words in neutral sentence contexts.
  • Eye-tracking was used to measure first fixation durations during reading.

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  • Naming latencies were recorded using both on-line and delayed naming tasks.

    • Main Results:

    • Longer first fixation durations were observed on compound words compared to control and suffixed words.
    • On-line naming tasks showed significantly shorter naming latencies for compound words.
    • Delayed naming tasks revealed equivalent naming latencies for compound and control words.

    Conclusions:

    • Word-viewing durations and naming latencies can yield divergent results in word recognition studies.
    • The findings suggest that the activation of constituent words within compound words occurs independently of the final semantic interpretation.
    • This research contributes to understanding the modularity of word processing in the human brain.