The Representation and Processing of Compound Nouns [Hardcover]

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.

1. Why Study Compound Processing? An Overview of the Issues,Gary Libben
2. Compound Types,Wolfgang U. Dressler
3. Compound Representation and Processing,Gonia Jarema
4. The Neuropsychology of Compound Words,Carlo Semenza and Sara Mondini
5. Preschool Children's Acquisition of Compounds,Elena Nicoladis
6. Doghouse/Chien-maison/Niche: Compounds in Bilinguals,Erika S. Levy, Mira Goral, and Loraine K. Obler
7. Conceptual Combination: Implictions for the Mental Lexicon,Christina L. Gagne and Thomas L. Spalding
8. Processing Chinese Compounds: A Survey of the Literature,James Myers
References
Index

The Representation and Processing of Compound Wordsis 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. --Linguist List

Gary Libbenis Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics at the University of Alberta. He is the co-author, with M. Paradis, ofThe Assessment of Bilingual Aphasia(Erlbaum, 1987) and, with J. Archibald, ofResearch Perspectives on Second LanguageAcquisition(Copp, Clark, Pitman, 1995).

Gonia Jaremais Professor of Linguistics at the University of Montreal and Director of the Mental Lexicon Laboratory at the Research Centre of the Institut universitaire de g?riatrie de Montr?al. She specializes in the psycho- and neurolinguistics of the mental lexicon from a cross-linguistic perspective.

Gary Libben and Gonia Jarema have been guest editors of Brain als’