Reading Complex Words

by Assink, Egbert M. H.; Sandra, Dominiek

• ISBN13: 9780306477072
• ISBN10: 0306477076
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Summary

In a series of fourteen chapters this book brings together current research findings on the involvement of word-internal structure for the purpose of word reading (especially morphological structure). Contributors include many leading experts in this research domain. The central theme of reading complex words is approached from several angles, such that the chapters span a wide variety of topics where this issue is important. The experiments reported in the book involve: - different populations : children, expert readers, illiterates; - different languages: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Turkish, Serbian; - different processing levels where morphology may play a role: sublexical, supralexical; - different variables which may determine morphological effects: morphological type, semantic transparency, branching relations among morphemes. Given this scope, the book offers a good state of the art platform in current psycholinguistic research on the topic. Reading Complex Words: Cross-Language Studies is a valuable resource for all researchers studying the mental lexicon and to those who teach advanced courses in the psychology of language.

Table of Contents

Linking morphological knowledge to English decoding ability: Large effects of little suffixes	1	(27)
Virginia Mann
Maria Singson
The effects of morphological structure on children's reading of derived words in English	27	(26)
Joanne F. Carlisle
C. Addison Stone
Morphological and phonological analysis by beginning readers: Evidence from Serbian and Turkish	53	(28)
Anne Fowler
Laurie Beth Feldman
Darinka Andjelkovic
Banu Oney
Recognizing morphologically complex words in Turkish	81	(12)
Aydin Yucesan Durgunoglu
Word decomposition in Hebrew as a Semitic language	93	(20)
Joseph Shimron
Morphological representation as a correlation between form and meaning	113	(26)
Marcus Taft
A supralexical model for French derivational morphology	139	(20)
Helene Giraudo
Jonathan Grainger
Parsing and semantic opacity	159	(32)
Robert Schreuder
Cristina Burani
Harald Baayen
Effects of sublexical frequency and meaning in prefixed words	191	(30)
Harold T. Nefs
Egbert M.H. Assink
Paul P.N.A. Knuijt
Morphological parsing and morphological structure	221	(20)
Gary Libben
Morpheme-based lexical reading: Evidence from pseudoword naming	241	(24)
Cristina Burani
Alessandro Laudanna
Word reading processes in adult learners	265	(30)
John P. Sabatini
Reading aloud polysyllabic words	295	(20)
Ludovic Ferrand
Juan Segui
Homophonous regular verb forms with a morphographic spelling: Spelling errors as a window on the mental lexicon and working memory	315	(16)
Dominiek Sandra
Index	331