Reading Complex Words

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Linking Morphological Knowledge to English Decoding Ability: Large Effects of Little Suffixes

   • Virginia Mann, Maria Singson

   Pages 1-25

3. The Effects of Morphological Structure on Children’s Reading of Derived Words in English

   • Joanne F. Carlisle, C. Addison Stone

   Pages 27-52

4. Morphological and Phonological Analysis by Beginning Readers: Evidence from Serbian and Turkish

   • Anne Fowler, Laurie Beth Feldman, Darinka Andjelkovic, Banu Oney

   Pages 53-80

5. Recognizing Morphologically Complex Words in Turkish

   • Aydin Yücesan Durgunoğlu

   Pages 81-92

6. Word Decomposition in Hebrew as a Semitic Language

   • Joseph Shimron

   Pages 93-111

7. Morphological Representation as a Correlation Between form and Meaning

   • Marcus Taft

   Pages 113-137

8. A Supralexical Model for French Derivational Morphology

   • Hélène Giraudo, Jonathan Grainger

   Pages 139-157

9. Parsing and Semantic Opacity

   • Robert Schreuder, Cristina Burani, R. Harald Baayen

   Pages 159-189

10. Effects of Sublexical Frequency and Meaning in Prefixed Words

    • Harold T. Nefs, Egbert M. H. Assink, Paul P. N. A. Knuijt

    Pages 191-219

11. Morphological Parsing and Morphological Structure

    • Gary Libben

    Pages 221-239

12. Morpheme-Based Lexical Reading: Evidence from Pseudoword Naming

    • Cristina Burani, Alessandro Laudanna

    Pages 241-264

13. Word Reading Processes in Adult Learners

    • John P. Sabatini

    Pages 265-293

14. Reading aloud polysyllabic words

    • Ludovic Ferrand, Juan Segui

    Pages 295-314

15. Homophonous Regular Verb Forms With a Morphographic Spelling: Spelling Errors as a Window on the Mental Lexicon and Working Memory

    • Dominiek Sandra

    Pages 315-330

16. Back Matter

    Pages 331-339

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In a series of fourteen chapters this book brings together current research findings on the involvement of word-internal structure for the purpose of word reading (especially morphological structure). Contributors include many leading experts in this research domain. The central theme of reading complex words is approached from several angles, such that the chapters span a wide variety of topics where this issue is important. The experiments reported in the book involve:

- different populations : children, expert readers, illiterates;
- different languages: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Turkish, Serbian;
- different processing levels where morphology may play a role: sublexical, supralexical;
- different variables which may determine morphological effects: morphological type, semantic transparency, branching relations among morphemes.

Given this scope, the book offers a good state of the art platform in current psycholinguistic research on the topic. Reading Complex Words: Cross-Language Studies is a valuable resource for all researchers studying the mental lexicon and to those who teach advanced courses in the psychology of language.

• language
• memory
• psychology
• psychology of language

"Overall, the book is quite comprehensive and adds substantive information to the pool of data regarding sublexical processes and reading."
(Jaumeiko J.C. Brown, Ph.D.)

• Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Egbert M. H. Assink

• University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  Dominiek Sandra

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