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Morphological Priming In Turkish Nominal Compound Processing

Compounding, constructing new words out of previously known words by means of
simple concatenation mostly, can be counted as one of the major word production
mechanisms in the majority of languages. Their importance in the history of human
languages warrants a detailed study with respect to the language faculty and related
cognitive aspects. In the last decade, compound production as well as comprehension
have become highly debated and investigated areas of research. Morphological
priming is one frequently employed paradigm for the investigation of compounding.
Whether morphologically complex words undergo a decomposition-composition
process, respectively, during comprehension and production or whether they are all
listed in full form in the lexicon is one key question hitherto addressed in several
studies related to English, German, Dutch and Chinese nominal compound words. The present study is concerned with compound production in Turkish. Various types
of Turkish compounds were investigated ((i) bare JCs (

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612631/index.pdf
Date01 September 2010
CreatorsOzer, Sibel
ContributorsHohenberger, Annette
PublisherMETU
Source SetsMiddle East Technical Univ.
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeM.S. Thesis
Formattext/pdf
RightsTo liberate the content for public access

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