The present study examines the role of hyphenation in the processing of English compound words. English compound words that appear in the English language as both hyphenated (eg. grown-up) and unspaced (eg. grownup) were chosen as target stimuli. Half of the compound words chosen appeared more frequently in their hyphenated form while the other half of the compounds appeared more frequently in ...

The attentional blink (AB) is the phenomenon in which the identification of the second of two targets (T2) is attenuated if it is presented less than 500 ms after the first target (T1). Although the AB is eliminated in canonical word conditions, it remains unclear whether the character order in compound words affects the magnitude of the AB. Morpheme decomposition and transposition of Chinese t...

The addition of inflectional suffixes in Bangla compound words is fairly complex. Normally, when two root words are joined, the corresponding inflectional suffix of each root word is deleted from the final compound word. In Bangla however, the compound word’s individual root words may retain their inflectional suffixes even in the final compound word. This non-deletion of inflection creates an ...

In this paper, we present a new approach to deriving compound words from a training corpus. The motivation for making compound words is because under some assumptions, speech recognition errors occur less frequently in longer words. Furthermore, they also enable more accurate modeling of pronunciation variability at the boundary between adjacent words in a continuously spoken utterance. We intr...