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The Representation and Processing of Compound Words (Paperback)
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The Representation and Processing of Compound Words (Paperback)
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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, for example,
breadboard, cardboard, cupboard, and sandwich-board show - the
rules governing the relations between the components' meanings are
not always straightforward. Compound words may be 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.
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