Processing English compounds in the first and second language: The influence of the middle morpheme

Language Learning

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 194-220

  Murphy, Victoria A ^a   Hayes, Jennifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compounding; Inflectional morphology; Possessive morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950112828     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00555.x     Document Type: Article

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