The hyphen as a segmentation cue in triconstituent compound processing: It's getting better all the time

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 530-544

  Bertram, Raymond ^a   Kuperman, Victor ^b   Baayen, R Harald ^c   Hyönä, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Branching; Compounds; Eye movements; Learning; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING;

ADULT; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 82055175975     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2011.00914.x     Document Type: Article

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