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Morphological Processing of Compounds, Neurolinguistic Studies
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Most Chinese words are composed of two syllables that can be mapped onto (one or more) morpheme(s) with clear boundaries. Behavioral studies have suggested that there should be a morphemic representation that intervenes between the form and meaning levels for Chinese polymorphemic words (Taft 2003). This lemma primaril…

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Hsu-Wen HUANG, “Morphological Processing of Compounds, Neurolinguistic Studies”, in: Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, General Editor Rint Sybesma. Consulted online on 26 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2210-7363_ecll_COM_000073>
First published online: 2015



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