The present study was carried out to investigate whether sign language structure plays a role in the processing of complex words (i.e., derivational and compound words), in particular, the delay of complex word reading in deaf adolescents. Chinese deaf adolescents were found to respond faster to derivational words than to compound words for one-sign-structure words, but showed comparable perfor...

Structural analysis of compound words is necessary and an important process in natural language processing. Proposed here is a corpusand statisticsbased method for the structural analysis of compound words in Japanese. We determine the structure of a compound word by using Internet corpus and calculating the strength of word association among its constituent words. Experiments with 5, 6, 7, and...

The article is devoted to the study of composite rhyming compounds as a means of word formation games. It explores the place of this category of words in the lexical system and peculiarities of their use in the Russian and English languages. Authors of the article represent compound words as a special lexical subgroup. On the specific publicistic material are revealed the peculiarities of compo...

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 occu...

this study compared the effects of two annotation modalities on the reading comprehension of iranian intermediate level efl learners. the two experimental groups under study received treatment on 10 academic l2 reading passages under one of two conditions: one group received treatment on key words in the reading passages through a multimedia environment providing textual annotations. the second...

The age at which a person acquires knowledge of an item is strong predictor retrieval, hereon defined as the Age Acquisition (AoA) effect. This effect such that early-acquired words are processed more quickly and accurately than late-acquired items. One account to explain this integrated account, where AoA occurs in early processes lexical retrieval hence should increase tasks necessitating gre...

According to the dual-route race model of compound word identification (Pollatsek, Hyönä, & Bertram, 2000), the holistic route and the morphological decomposition route operate in tandem. Bertram and Hyönä (2003) posited that word length modulates the interplay between the two access routes. When a compound word is sufficiently short so that all or most of its letters fall on the foveal region ...

Compound words are cross-linguistic morphological phenomena that occur in all languages. Compound words are widely accepted to be stored in the lexicon but their constituents need to be accessed during both language learning and production processes. In this study, the use of corpora was investigated for how to differentiate single-stem words from single-word compounds and then how to segment c...

Experiment 1 examined whether the semantic transparency of an English unspaced compound word affected how long it took to process it in reading. Three types of opaque words were each compared with a matched set of transparent words (i.e. matched on the length and frequency of the constituents and the frequency of the word as a whole). Two sets of the opaque words were partially opaque: either t...