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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Compound words"”.
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The subsidiary stress in Russian compound words
… occurrence of the subsidiary stress in Russian compound words is influenced by the accentual property of the first stem. Since A stems have fixed stress on the stem, they more consistently have stress in the compound words. B stems do not have stress in the compound words. This is because B …
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Hotdog not hot dog: The phonological planning of compound words
… priming paradigm, we assessed whether nominal compounds composed of two free morphemes like sawdust or fishbowl are prepared for production at the segmental level in the same way that two-syllable monomorphemic words (e.g. bandit) are, or instead as sequences of separable words (e.g. full bowl …
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The Development of Taiwanese Children's Ability to Infer Orthographic Information From Semantic and Phonological Information
… relation between characters in different compound words is highly influenced by their semantic and phonological properties. For example, the character corresponding to chicken is used to compose compound words corresponding to hen and rooster. I hypothesized that Taiwanese children, who …
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The formation of Chinese multi-word constructions: evidence from the processing and production of Chinese native speakers
… copy constructions (VCC) and the disyllabic root-compound words (DSC)—are re-examined based on the evidence from native speakers’ processing and production. The purpose of this study is to fill an empirical gap from the perspective of theoretical postulations for the two constructions, namely, the …
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An investigation of how multiple sources of information are integrated during online reading
… first set of studies asks how readers comprehend compound words containing transposed letters that are swapped between the word’s morphemes or that stay within a single morpheme, when these words are encountered in a meaningful sentence context. Will readers weight word- level information more …
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A study of compound hapax legomena in Old English poetry
… governing the use of a particular type of compound word in Old English poetry, the compound which is uniquely attested. Compounds, which in Old English poetry are chiefly substantival and adjectival, are especially important in context because they consist of two words that in the normal …
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A comparative study of variation in stress and intonation patterns in the spoken English of some selected Yoruba and Zulu university undergraduate students
… in use particularly at the level of spoken words. The present work is one of the new crops of studies that attempts to identify and characterise the varieties of spoken English of our time. The study deals with a comparative study of variation in stress and intonation patterns in the spoken …