The analysis of nominal compound constructions has proven to be a recalcitrant problem for linguistic semantics and poses serious challenges for natural language processing systems. We argue for a compositional treatment of compound constructions which limits the need for listing of compounds in the lexicon. We argue that the development of a practical model of compound interpretation crucially...

We report a boundary paradigm eye movement experiment to investigate whether the predictability of second character two-character compound word affects how it is processed prior direct fixation during reading. The was positioned immediately target word, which itself either predictable or unpredictable. preview pseudocharacter (nonsense preview) an identity preview. obtained clear effects in all...