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When bicycle pump is harder to read than bicycle bell: effects of parsing cues in first and second language compound reading

Reading and understanding morphologically complex words can sometimes be a particular challenge to nonnative speakers. For example, compound words consist of multiple free morphemes, oftentimes without explicit marking of the morpheme boundaries. In a lexical decision task, we investigated compound...

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Autores principales: Lemhöfer, Kristin, Koester, Dirk, Schreuder, Robert
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21327384
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-010-0044-y
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description Reading and understanding morphologically complex words can sometimes be a particular challenge to nonnative speakers. For example, compound words consist of multiple free morphemes, oftentimes without explicit marking of the morpheme boundaries. In a lexical decision task, we investigated compound reading in native and nonnative speakers of Dutch. The compounds differed in that the letter bigram that formed the morpheme boundary could or could not occur within a Dutch morpheme, thus providing an orthotactic cue as to the position of the morpheme boundary. Native and nonnative speakers responded faster to compounds that contained such an orthotactic cue. Additional analyses showed that although native speakers used this cue for long, but not for short compounds, no such word length modulation was observed for nonnative speakers. It is suggested that orthotactic parsing cues are used during compound reading and possibly even more so in nonnative speakers. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.3758/s13423-010-0044-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-30708792011-05-02 When bicycle pump is harder to read than bicycle bell: effects of parsing cues in first and second language compound reading Lemhöfer, Kristin Koester, Dirk Schreuder, Robert Psychon Bull Rev Article Reading and understanding morphologically complex words can sometimes be a particular challenge to nonnative speakers. For example, compound words consist of multiple free morphemes, oftentimes without explicit marking of the morpheme boundaries. In a lexical decision task, we investigated compound reading in native and nonnative speakers of Dutch. The compounds differed in that the letter bigram that formed the morpheme boundary could or could not occur within a Dutch morpheme, thus providing an orthotactic cue as to the position of the morpheme boundary. Native and nonnative speakers responded faster to compounds that contained such an orthotactic cue. Additional analyses showed that although native speakers used this cue for long, but not for short compounds, no such word length modulation was observed for nonnative speakers. It is suggested that orthotactic parsing cues are used during compound reading and possibly even more so in nonnative speakers. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.3758/s13423-010-0044-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer-Verlag 2011-01-05 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3070879/ /pubmed/21327384 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-010-0044-y Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Lemhöfer, Kristin
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When bicycle pump is harder to read than bicycle bell: effects of parsing cues in first and second language compound reading
title When bicycle pump is harder to read than bicycle bell: effects of parsing cues in first and second language compound reading
title_full When bicycle pump is harder to read than bicycle bell: effects of parsing cues in first and second language compound reading
title_fullStr When bicycle pump is harder to read than bicycle bell: effects of parsing cues in first and second language compound reading
title_full_unstemmed When bicycle pump is harder to read than bicycle bell: effects of parsing cues in first and second language compound reading
title_short When bicycle pump is harder to read than bicycle bell: effects of parsing cues in first and second language compound reading
title_sort when bicycle pump is harder to read than bicycle bell: effects of parsing cues in first and second language compound reading
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21327384
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-010-0044-y
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