The Representation and Processing of Compound Nouns

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This book presents new work on the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of compound words and shows the insights it offers on natural language processing and the relation between language, mind, and memory.

Author(s): Gary Libben, Gonia Jarema
Series: Oxford Linguistics
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2006

Language: English
Pages: 259

Contents......Page 6
Preface and Overview......Page 7
Notes on the Contributors......Page 13
1 Why Study Compound Processing? An overview of the issues......Page 18
2 Compound Types......Page 40
3 Compound Representation and Processing: A cross-language perspective......Page 62
4 The Neuropsychology of Compound Words......Page 88
5 Preschool Children’s Acquisition of Compounds......Page 113
6 Doghouse/Chien-maison/Niche: Approaches to the understanding of compound processing in bilinguals......Page 142
7 Conceptual Combination: Implications for the mental lexicon......Page 162
8 Processing Chinese Compounds: A survey of the literature......Page 186
References......Page 214
C......Page 240
G......Page 241
L......Page 242
R......Page 243
V......Page 244
Z......Page 245
B......Page 246
C......Page 247
G......Page 249
L......Page 250
M......Page 251
N......Page 253
P......Page 254
R......Page 255
S......Page 256
T......Page 257
W......Page 258