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The development of whole-word representations in compound word processing: Evidence from eye fixation patterns of elementary school children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2011

TUOMO HÄIKIÖ ,
RAYMOND BERTRAM  and
JUKKA HYÖNÄ
TUOMO HÄIKIÖ*
Affiliation:
University of Turku
RAYMOND BERTRAM
Affiliation:
University of Turku
JUKKA HYÖNÄ
Affiliation:
University of Turku
*
ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE Tuomo Häikiö, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland. E-mail: tuilha@utu.fi
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Abstract

The role of morphology in reading development was examined by measuring participants’ eye movements while they read sentences containing either a hyphenated (e.g., ulko-ovi “front door”) or concatenated (e.g., autopeli “racing game”) compound. The participants were Finnish second, fourth, and sixth graders (aged 8, 10, and 12 years, respectively). Fast second graders and all four and sixth graders read concatenated compounds faster than hyphenated compounds. This suggests that they resort to slower morpheme-based processing for hyphenated compounds but prefer to process concatenated compounds via whole-word representations. In contrast, slow second graders’ fixation durations were shorter for hyphenated than concatenated compounds. This implies that they process all compounds via constituent morphemes and that hyphenation comes to aid in this process.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , July 2011 , pp. 533 - 551
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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