Individual variability in the semantic processing of English compound words.

ABSTRACT: Semantic transparency effects during compound word recognition provide critical insight into the organization of semantic knowledge and the nature of semantic processing. The past 25 years of psycholinguistic research on compound semantic transparency has produced discrepant effects, leaving the existence and nature of its influence unresolved. In the present study, we examined the influence of semantic transparency and individual reading experience on eye-movement behavior during sentence reading. Eye-movement data were collected from 138 non-college-bound 16- to 26-year-old speakers of English in a sentence-reading task representing a total of 455 different compound words. Measures of individual differences in reading experience were collected from the same participants and consisted of

SUBMITTER: Schmidtke D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5862730 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature