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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gary Libben (University of Alberta) , Gonia Jarema (University of Montreal)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.30cm Weight: 0.426kg ISBN: 9780199228911ISBN 10: 0199228914 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 20 September 2007 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Gary Libben: Why Study Compound Processing? An Overview of the Issues 2: Wolfgang U. Dressler: Compound Types 3: Gonia Jarema: Compound Representation and Processing: A Cross-language Perspective 4: Carlo Semenza and Sara Mondini: The Neuropsychology of Compound Words 5: Elena Nicoladis: Preschool Children's Acquisition of Compounds 6: Erika S. Levy, Mira Goral, and Loraine K. Obler: Doghouse/Chien-maison/Niche: Approaches to the Understanding of Compounds Processing in Bilinguals 7: Christina L. Gagne and Thomas L. Spalding: Conceptual Combination: Implictions for the Mental Lexicon 8: James Myers: Processing Chinese Compounds: A Survey of the Literature References IndexReviews...a good introduction to the issues that arise in doing research on compounds, and is instructive in illustrating how studying compounds provides insight into the nature of lexical access and the lexicon. * Dr. Sara Finley, Linguistlist * ...a good introduction to the issues that arise in doing research on compounds, and is instructive in illustrating how studying compounds provides insight into the nature of lexical access and the lexicon. Dr. Sara Finley, Linguistlist Author InformationGary Libben is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics at the University of Alberta. He is the co-author, with M. Paradis, of The Assessment of Bilingual Aphasia (Erlbaum, 1987) and, with J. Archibald, of Research Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition (Copp, Clark, Pitman, 1995). Gonia Jarema is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Montreal and Director of the Mental Lexicon Laboratory at the Research Centre of the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal. Her field of research is the psycho- and neurolinguistics of the mental lexicon from a cross-linguistic perspective. Gary Jarema and Gonia Libben have been guest editors of Brain and Language and Folia Linguistica. They have both served as Directors of the International Mental Lexicon Research Group of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. They are Editors of the journal The Mental Lexicon. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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