Models that represent meaning as high-dimensional numerical vectors—such as latent
semantic analysis (LSA), hyperspace analogue to language (HAL), bound encoding of the …

There is considerable behavioral evidence that morphologically complex words such as 'tax-
able'and 'kiss-es' are processed and represented combinatorially. In other words, they are …

The morphological structure of complex words impacts how they are processed during
visual word recognition. This impact varies over the course of reading acquisition and for …

Both localist and connectionist models, based on experimental results obtained for English
and French, assume that the degree of semantic compositionality of a morphologically …

ABSTRACT A key question in the study of lexical processing has been whether the semantic
transparency of multimorphemic words affects processing. Previous studies of English and …

In the present study, we provide a comprehensive analysis and a multi-dimensional dataset
of semantic transparency measures for 1810 German compound words. Compound words …

Using distributional semantics, we show that English nominal pluralization exhibits semantic
clusters. For instance, the change in semantic space from singulars to plurals differs …

Research on language complexity has been abundant and manifold in the past two
decades. Within typology, it has to a very large extent been motivated by the question of …

Previous studies found that an automatic meaning-composition process affects the
processing of morphologically complex words, and related this operation to conceptual …

While morphemes are theoretically defined as linguistic units linking form and meaning,
semantic effects in morphological processing are not reported consistently in the literature …