Reading Complex Words -

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Résumé :
In a series of fourteen chapters this book brings together current research findings on the involvement of word-internal structure for the purpose of word reading (especially morphological structure). Contributors include many leading experts in this research domain. The central theme of reading complex words is approached from several angles, such that the chapters span a wide variety of topics where this issue is important. The experiments reported in the book involve: - different populations : children, expert readers, illiterates; - different languages: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Turkish, Serbian; - different processing levels where morphology may play a role: sublexical, supralexical; - different variables which may determine morphological effects: morphological type, semantic transparency, branching relations among morphemes. Given this scope, the book offers a good state of the art platform in current psycholinguistic research on the topic. Reading Complex Words: Cross-Language Studies is a valuable resource for all researchers studying the mental lexicon and to those who teach advanced courses in the psychology of language.

Sommaire:
1. Linking morphological knowledge to English decoding ability: Large effects of little suffixes.- 2. The effects of morphological structure on children?s reading of derived words in English.- 3. Morphological and phonological analysis by beginning readers: Evidence from Serbian and Turkish.- 4. Recognizing morphologically complex words in Turkish.- 5. Word decomposition in Hebrew as a Semitic language.- 6. Morphological representation as a correlation between form and meaning.- 7. A supralexical model for French derivational morphology.- 8. Parsing and semantic opacity.- 9. Effects of sublexical frequency and meaning in prefixed words.- 10. Morphological parsing and morphological structure.- 11. Morpheme-based lexical reading: Evidence from pseudoword naming.- 12. Word reading processes in adult learners.- 13. Reading aloud polysyllabic words.- 14. Homophonous regular verb forms with a morphographic spelling: Spelling errors as a window on the mental lexicon and working memory.