The representation and processing of compound words
- Title
- The representation and processing of compound words / edited by Gary Libben and Gonia Jarema.
- Published by
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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- Description
- xv, 242 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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."--Jacket.
- Series statement
- Oxford linguistics
- Uniform title
- Oxford linguistics.
- Subject
- Contents
- Why study compound processing? : an overview of the issues / Gary Libben -- Compound types / Wolfgang U. Dressler -- Compound representation and processing : a cross-language perspective / Gonia Jarema -- The neuropsychology of compound words / Carlo Semenza and Sara Mondini -- Preschool children's acquisition of compounds / Elena Nicoladis -- Doghouse/Chien-maison/niche : approaches to the understanding of compound processing in bilinguals / Erika S. Levy, Mira Goral, and Loraine K. Obler -- Conceptual combination : implictions for the mental lexicon / Christina L. Gagné and Thomas L. Spalding -- Processing Chinese compounds : a survey of the literature / James Myers.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-221) and index.