From decomposition to distributed theories of morphological processing in reading

P Stevens, DC Plaut - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2022 - Springer
The morphological structure of complex words impacts how they are processed during
visual word recognition. This impact varies over the course of reading acquisition and for …

[HTML][HTML] Form to meaning mapping and the impact of explicit morpheme combination in novel word processing

R Bonandrini, S Amenta, S Sulpizio, M Tettamanti… - Cognitive …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the present study, we leveraged computational methods to explore the extent to which,
relative to direct access to semantics from orthographic cues, the additional appreciation of …

Semantic transparency is not invisibility: A computational model of perceptually-grounded conceptual combination in word processing

F Günther, MA Petilli, M Marelli - Journal of Memory and Language, 2020 - Elsevier
Previous studies found that an automatic meaning-composition process affects the
processing of morphologically complex words, and related this operation to conceptual …

A systematic search for compound semantics in pretrained BERT architectures

F Miletić, SS im Walde - Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
To date, transformer-based models such as BERT have been less successful in predicting
compositionality of noun compounds than static word embeddings. This is likely related to a …

A (distributional) semantic perspective on the processing of morphologically complex words

S Amenta, F Günther, M Marelli - The Mental Lexicon, 2020 - jbe-platform.com
While morphemes are theoretically defined as linguistic units linking form and meaning,
semantic effects in morphological processing are not reported consistently in the literature …

Trying to make it work: Compositional effects in the processing of compound “nonwords”

F Günther, M Marelli - Quarterly Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Speakers of languages with synchronically productive compounding systems, such as
English, are likely to encounter new compounds on a daily basis. These can only be useful …

[HTML][HTML] Are two words recalled or recognised as one? How age-of-acquisition affects memory for compound words

MM Elsherif, JC Catling - Journal of Memory and Language, 2023 - Elsevier
The age at which a person acquires knowledge of an item is a strong predictor of item
retrieval, hereon defined as the Age of Acquisition (AoA) effect. This effect is such that early …

Semantic properties of English nominal pluralization: Insights from word embeddings

E Shafaei-Bajestan, M Moradipour-Tari, P Uhrig… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Semantic differentiation of nominal pluralization is grammaticalized in many languages. For
example, plural markers may only be relevant for human nouns. English does not appear to …

The lexical processing of Japanese collocations by Chinese Japanese-as-a-foreign-language learners: an experimental study by manipulating the presentation …

Q Song, X Fei, N Matsumi - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Research on collocations has become an essential issue in L2 acquisition and
cognitive psychology. Previous studies have mainly focused on phonographic languages …

Contrasting off‐line segmentation decisions with on‐line word segmentation during reading

L He, Z Song, M Chang, C Zang, G Yan… - British Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In two experiments, we investigated the correspondences between off‐line word
segmentation and on‐line segmentation processing during Chinese reading. In Experiment …