Constituent integration during the processing of compound words: Does it involve the use of relational structures?

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-35

  Gagné, Christina L ^a   Spalding, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compounds; Conceptual combination; Integration; Lexical processing; Morphological decomposition; Nouns; Relations; Semantic composition; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 56249105782     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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