Context concreteness for the second constituent slows down compound-word processing

The present paper investigates the effects of valence, arousal, and concreteness norms produced in Warriner et al. [2013], Brysbaert et al. [2014], and Snefjella & Kuperman [2016] on English compounding. The objects of study are over 2000 non‑spaced (concatenated) compounds taken from the LADEC...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chariton Charitonidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 2022-12-01
Series:Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
Subjects:
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/6769
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The present paper investigates the effects of valence, arousal, and concreteness norms produced in Warriner et al. [2013], Brysbaert et al. [2014], and Snefjella & Kuperman [2016] on English compounding. The objects of study are over 2000 non‑spaced (concatenated) compounds taken from the LADEC database (Gagné et al. [2019]). In the multiple regression models, the representation (word-level) and context norms are used as independent variables. The lexical decision and naming times from the English Lexicon Project (ELP) and the British Lexicon Project (BLP) are used as dependent variables. It is found that higher values of context concreteness for the second constituent are associated with slower response times across lexical decision and naming.
ISSN:1951-6215