The present study used a repetition priming paradigm to investigate the basic morphological
units stored in mental lexicon for Chinese as second language learners (L2) and Chinese …

Abstract The Large Database of English Pseudo-compounds (LaDEP) contains nearly 7500
English words which mimic, but do not truly possess, a compound morphemic structure …

Humor is not only a highly valuable tool for pedagogical purposes, it can also help language
learners increase their feeling of engagement in everyday communication in the target …

Word forms such as walked or walker are decomposed into their morphological constituents
(walk+–ed/–er) during language comprehension. Yet, the efficiency of morphological …

African languages have rarely been the subject of psycholinguistic experimentation. The
current study employs a masked visual priming experiment to investigate morphological …

This study follows the footsteps of Jonathan Grainger and colleagues by investigating
compound processing in English monolinguals and Chinese-English bilinguals using the …

Compound words consist of two or more words which combine to form a single word or
phrase that acts as one. In English, the head of compound words is usually, but not always …

This study examined how Chinese native speakers (NSs) and second language (L2)
learners process compound words. The findings showed that they used the hybrid model of …

大多数语言中, 形态复杂词所占的比例很高. 形态复杂词形-义映射的规律性使得读者不仅能直接
从心理词典中提取整词语义, 还可以利用形态规则来建构词语的语义. 研究发现 …

When bilinguals switch between their two languages, they often alternate between words
whose formation rules in one language are different from the other (eg, a noun-verb …