Gary Libben / Gonia Jarema (eds.)

The Representation and Processing of Compound Words

Herausgeber: Libben, Gary; Jarema, Gonia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents new work on the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of compound words and shows the insights it offers on natural language processing and the relation between language, mind, and memory.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Linguistics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780199228911
• ISBN-10: 0199228914
• Artikelnr.: 23398711

Autorenporträt

Gary Libben is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics at the University of Alberta. He is the co-author, with M. Paradis, of The Assessment of Bilingual Aphasia (Erlbaum, 1987) and, with J. Archibald, of Research Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition (Copp, Clark, Pitman, 1995). Gonia Jarema is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Montreal and Director of the Mental Lexicon Laboratory at the Research Centre of the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal. Her field of research is the psycho- and neurolinguistics of the mental lexicon from a cross-linguistic perspective. Gary Jarema and Gonia Libben have been guest editors of Brain and Language and Folia Linguistica. They have both served as Directors of the International Mental Lexicon Research Group of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. They are Editors of the journal The Mental Lexicon.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Gary Libben: Why Study Compound Processing? An Overview of the
Issues
* 2: Wolfgang U. Dressler: Compound Types
* 3: Gonia Jarema: Compound Representation and Processing: A
Cross-language Perspective
* 4: Carlo Semenza and Sara Mondini: The Neuropsychology of Compound
Words
* 5: Elena Nicoladis: Preschool Children's Acquisition of Compounds
* 6: Erika S. Levy, Mira Goral, and Loraine K. Obler:
Doghouse/Chien-maison/Niche: Approaches to the Understanding of
Compounds Processing in Bilinguals
* 7: Christina L. Gagne and Thomas L. Spalding: Conceptual Combination:
Implictions for the Mental Lexicon
* 8: James Myers: Processing Chinese Compounds: A Survey of the
Literature
* References
* Index