Triangulating the Effects of Interfixation in the Processing of German Compounds

Autor:	Jacqueline Stark, Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Christiane Pons
Rok vydání:	2002
Předmět:	German Linguistics and Language Compounding Processing cost language Interfix Language and Linguistics language.human_language Linguistics Mathematics
Zdroj:	Folia Linguistica. 36
ISSN:	1614-7308 0165-4004
DOI:	10.1515/flin.2002.36.1-2.23
Popis:	The German language shows a high degree of compounding. The process is very productive in the language and compounds may be formed from the combination of four or more roots. In addition, German compounding also shows the presence of interfixes between constituents in about 35% of all compounds. We report on a compound composition experiment that investigates the role of these interfixes in on-line compound processing. The study reveals that interfixation carries with it a processing cost in German and that this processing cost is elevated in cases in which the interfix attaches to a truncated form of the initial compound constituent. Moreover, we find that response times are increased when initial compound constituents show inconsistent interfixation patterns across the language. These results support the view that German compounds are represented in terms of their constituents and that interfixation choices are made on-line.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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