The study of complex word processing has been centered on the notion of morpheme as a processing unit. Evidence from psycholinguistics and cognitive neuropsychology has been taken as suggestive of symbolic morphemic representations at the lexical level, on a par with words. However, several phenomena observed in morphological processing suggest a more complex picture. The crucial role played in reading by the distributional properties of both the complex word and its morphemic constituents (e.g., family size, morphological entropy, orthography-semantics consistency) highlights the limits of the ‘morpheme-as-unit’ assumption. Moreover, results from the developmental literature show that morphology is an age-related emergent aspect of written word processing, exploited to overcome reading challenges for both typically developing readers and children with dyslexia. A unitary account for this complex scenario may be offered by learning models that focus on form-to-meaning mapping.
Marelli, M., Traficante, D., Burani, C., Reading morphologically complex words: experimental evidence and learning models, in Pirrelli, V. P. I. D. W. U. (ed.), Word Knowledge and Word Usage, De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin - Boston 2020: 553- 592. 10.1515/9783110440577 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/164269]
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Titolo: | Reading morphologically complex words: experimental evidence and learning models | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110440577 | |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2020 | |
Abstract: | The study of complex word processing has been centered on the notion of morpheme as a processing unit. Evidence from psycholinguistics and cognitive neuropsychology has been taken as suggestive of symbolic morphemic representations at the lexical level, on a par with words. However, several phenomena observed in morphological processing suggest a more complex picture. The crucial role played in reading by the distributional properties of both the complex word and its morphemic constituents (e.g., family size, morphological entropy, orthography-semantics consistency) highlights the limits of the ‘morpheme-as-unit’ assumption. Moreover, results from the developmental literature show that morphology is an age-related emergent aspect of written word processing, exploited to overcome reading challenges for both typically developing readers and children with dyslexia. A unitary account for this complex scenario may be offered by learning models that focus on form-to-meaning mapping. | |
Lingua: | Inglese | |
Titolo del libro: | Word Knowledge and Word Usage | |
Editore: | De Gruyter Mouton | |
ISBN: | 9783110440577 | |
Citazione: | Marelli, M., Traficante, D., Burani, C., Reading morphologically complex words: experimental evidence and learning models, in Pirrelli, V. P. I. D. W. U. (ed.), Word Knowledge and Word Usage, De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin - Boston 2020: 553- 592. 10.1515/9783110440577 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/164269] | |
Appare nelle tipologie: | In libro con curatela: Capitolo o saggio; Prefazione/Postfazione; Breve introduzione; Schede di catalogo, repertorio o corpus |