Influence of morphological and pseudo-morphological boundaries on activating embedded words when accessing compounds and pseudo-compounds.

According to the edge-aligned embedded word activation theory and the principle of full decomposition (Grainger & Beyersmann, 2017), (pseudo)morphemes are extracted from both edges of the whole word based on orthographic information. For example, car is extracted from the compound carport, where it...

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Published in:	Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 6; pp. 2453 - 2472
Main Authors:	Taikh, Alexander, Gagné, Christina L., Spalding, Thomas
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Aug2026
Subjects:	Alberta Reading Task performance Psycholinguistics Psychology Semantics Cognition Academic medical centers Research funding Descriptive statistics Experimental design Research methodology Comparative studies Data analysis software Visual perception
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