Complex Compounds in German: Interword Spaces Facilitate Segmentation but Hinder Assignment of Meaning

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-50

  Inhoff, Albrecht Werner ^a   Radach, Ralph ^b   Heller, Dieter ^b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compounds; German; Interword spaces; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001834360     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1999.2666     Document Type: Article

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