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The Representation and Processing of Compound Words
Gary Libben and Gonia Jarema
260 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-928506-8
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Hardback
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24 November 2005
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- New insights into the most fundamental word formation processes
- Investigates the mental operations involved in language
- Unites work in psychology, linguistics, neuropsychology, language acquisition, and bilingualism
- Readable and accessible
This book presents new work on the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of compound words. It shows the insights this work offers on natural language processing and the relation between language, mind, and memory. Compounding is an easy and effective way to create and transfer meanings. By building new lexical items based on the meanings of existing items, compounds can usually be understood on first presentation, though - as, say, breadboard, cardboard, cupboard, and sandwich-board show - the rules governing the relations between the components' meanings are not always straightforward.
Compound words are segmentable into their constituent morphemes in much the same
way as sentences can be divided into their constituent words: children and adults would not otherwise find them interpretable. But compound sequences may also be independent lexical items that can be retrieved for production as single entities and whose idiosyncratic meanings are stored in the mind. Compound words reflect the properties both of linguistic representation in the mind and of grammatical processing. They thus offer opportunities for investigating key aspects of the mental operations involved in language: for example, the interplay between storage and computation; the manner in which morphological and semantic factors impact on the nature of storage; and the way the mind's computational processes serve on-line language comprehension and production. This book explores the nature
of these opportunities, assesses what is known, and considers what may yet be discovered and how.Readership: Linguists and cognitive scientists at graduate level and above.
Psycholinguists, neurolinguists, and linguists including researchers in: the psychology of language; first language acquisition; bilingualism; and morphological/lexical processing.
Graduate students in these fields.
Some attention might be given to marketing in Chinese-speaking countries. The book includes a chapter (by James Myers in Taiwan) which presents the most current and complete synthesis of the psycholinguistic research on compounding in Chinese.
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Gary Libben, University of Alberta, and Gonia Jarema, University of Montreal Contributors:
Gary Libben, University of Alberta
Gonia Jarema, University of Montreal
Wolfgang U. Dressler, University of Vienna
Christina L. Gagne, University of Alberta
Mira Goral, City University of New York
Erika S. Levy, City University of New York
Sara Mondini, University of Trieste
James Myers, National Chung Cheng University
Elena Nicoladis, University of Alberta
Loraine K. Obler, City University of New York
Carlo Semenza, University
of Trieste
Thomas L. Spalding, University of Alberta
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"...a good introduction to the issues that arise in doing research on compounds, and is instructive in illustrating how studying compounds provides insight into the nature of lexical access and the lexicon." - Dr. Sara Finley, Linguistlist
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1: Gary Libben: Why Study Compound Processing? An Overview of the Issues
2: Wolfgang U. Dressler: Compound Types
3: Gonia Jarema: Compound Representation and Processing
4: Carlo Semenza and Sara Mondini: The Neuropsychology of Compound Words
5: Elena Nicoladis: Preschool Children's Acquisition of Compounds
6: Erika S. Levy, Mira Goral, and Loraine K. Obler: Doghouse/Chien-maison/Niche: Compounds in Bilinguals
7: Christina L. Gagne and Thomas L. Spalding: Conceptual Combination: Implictions for the Mental Lexicon
8: James Myers: Processing Chinese Compounds: A Survey of the Literature
References
Index
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