The role of the frequency of constituents in compound words: evidence from Basque and Spanish. Export

@article{Dunabeitiaetal07, abstract = {Recent data from compound word processing suggests that compounds are recognized via their constituent lexemes (Juhasz, Starr, Inhoff, \& Placke, 2003). The present lexical decision experiment manipulated orthogonally the frequency of the constituents of compound words in two languages: Basque and Spanish. Basque and Spanish diverge widely in their morphological properties and in the number of existing compound words. Furthermore, the head lexeme (i.e., the most meaningful lexeme related to the whole-word meaning) in Spanish tends to be the second lexeme, whereas in Basque the percentage is more distributed. Results showed a facilitative effect of the frequency of the second lexeme, in both Basque and Spanish compounds. Thus, both Basque and Spanish readers decompose compounds into their constituents for lexical access, and this decomposition is carried out in a language-independent and blind-to-semantics manner. We examine the implications of these results for models of lexical access.}, address = {Departamento de Psicologia Cognitiva, Social y Organizacional, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. jaduna@ull.es}, author = {Du\~{n}abeitia, J. A. and Perea, M. and Carreiras, M.}, citeulike-article-id = {2904407}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18229492}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18229492}, issn = {1069-9384}, journal = {Psychonomic bulletin \& review}, keywords = {basque, cognition, compound-words, comprehension, language, lexical-decision-task, lexicon, morphology, spanish}, month = {December}, number = {6}, pages = {1171--1176}, posted-at = {2008-06-18 08:42:00}, priority = {2}, title = {The role of the frequency of constituents in compound words: evidence from Basque and Spanish.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18229492}, volume = {14}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - Dunabeitiaetal07 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2904407 N2 - Recent data from compound word processing suggests that compounds are recognized via their constituent lexemes (Juhasz, Starr, Inhoff, & Placke, 2003). The present lexical decision experiment manipulated orthogonally the frequency of the constituents of compound words in two languages: Basque and Spanish. Basque and Spanish diverge widely in their morphological properties and in the number of existing compound words. Furthermore, the head lexeme (i.e., the most meaningful lexeme related to the whole-word meaning) in Spanish tends to be the second lexeme, whereas in Basque the percentage is more distributed. Results showed a facilitative effect of the frequency of the second lexeme, in both Basque and Spanish compounds. Thus, both Basque and Spanish readers decompose compounds into their constituents for lexical access, and this decomposition is carried out in a language-independent and blind-to-semantics manner. We examine the implications of these results for models of lexical access. IS - 6 JF - Psychonomic bulletin & review SN - 1069-9384 AD - Departamento de Psicologia Cognitiva, Social y Organizacional, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. jaduna@ull.es EP - 1176 TI - The role of the frequency of constituents in compound words: evidence from Basque and Spanish. VL - 14 SP - 1171 KW - basque KW - cognition KW - compound-words KW - comprehension KW - language KW - lexical-decision-task KW - lexicon KW - morphology KW - spanish AU - Duñabeitia, JA AU - Perea, M AU - Carreiras, M PY - 2007/12// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18229492 ER -