Uberachiever or Developerin: Eye movements during the processing of translingual hybrid noun-formations.
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SUBMITTER: Dumrukcic N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10864917 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb
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<i>Überachiever</i> or <i>Developerin</i>: Eye movements during the processing of translingual hybrid noun-formations.
Dumrukcic Nina N Kotzor Sandra S
Heliyon 20240130 3
This eye tracking experiment tests how the brain recognizes and processes hybrid German-English word-formations and how this process compares to monolingual items. Thirty bilingual German-English adults from the Oxford area (23 females; mean age = 28.0, SD = 9.3) who were familiar with the meaning and underlying structure of the individual components had no comprehension difficulties. After fitting linear mixed effects models (95 % CI), the results showed an effect of word length and previous ex ...[more]
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