Typing time as an index of morphological and semantic effects during English compound processing

• Main Authors: Gagné, Christina, Spalding, Thomas L.
• Format: Online
• Language: English
• Published: Mediterranean Morphology Meetings (MMM) 2015
• Subjects: 0; computational morphology; paradigms; inflection; derivation; Levenshtein distance; morphological processing; stem frequency; Italian; masked priming; compound formation; morphological productivity; productivity measures; corpus-based statistical methods; suspended affixation; Lexical Integrity Hypothesis; derivational suffixes; coordination; roots; Hebrew; Spanish; cross-linguistic; motion events; typological change; Latin linguistics; sytem; usage; compounding; Italian; overabundance; number inflection; reciprocals; reflexives; templates; Hebrew; collective and distributive; root; features; morphology; periphrasis

In Typing time as an index of morphological and semantic effects during English compound processing, Christina Gagné and Thomas Spalding discuss how processing is affected by morphological structure and semantic transparency. In a written language production task, they found elevated typing times at morpheme boundaries and priming effects for compounds with transparent heads, but also that the processing style changed adaptively across trials.