When bicycle pump is harder to read than bicycle bell: effects of parsing cues in first and second language compound reading
Publication year
2011Source
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 2, (2011), pp. 364-370ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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Journal title
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Volume
vol. 18
Issue
iss. 2
Languages used
English (eng)
Page start
p. 364
Page end
p. 370
Subject
DI-BCB_DCC_Theme 1: Language and Communication; DI-BCB_DCC_Theme 2: Perception, Action and Control; PsycholinguisticsAbstract
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.
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