Moving spaces: Spelling alternation in English noun-noun compounds
Moving spaces: Spelling alternation in English noun-noun compounds
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移动空间：英语名词-名词复合词中的拼写交替
DOI：
10.1080/01690965.2012.701757
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发表时间：
2013
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影响因子：
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通讯作者：
R. Bertram
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作者：
V. Kuperman;R. Bertram
本研究探讨了英语复合词中观察到的间隔（bell tower）、连字符（bell-tower）和连接（belltower）格式之间的正字法交替的语言预测因素和行为含义。在两个英语语料库的基础上，我们模拟了经历词汇化的复合词的拼写演变，并定义了复合词成分的一组正字法、分布和语义属性，这些属性共同决定了对其中一种可用实现的偏好。我们探索象似性和经济性作为拼写中历时变化和同步偏好的竞争动机。观察到的书面写作模式密切反映了阅读中复合词识别的要求和策略。不利于读者节省精力的正字法选择会带来很高的识别成本，这在其他拼写格式中出现的串联复合词的词汇决策和命名延迟中就得到了证明。
The present study explores linguistic predictors and behavioural implications of the orthographic alternation between a spaced (bell tower), hyphenated (bell-tower), and concatenated (belltower) format observed in English compound words. On the basis of two English corpora, we model the evolution of spelling for compounds undergoing lexicalisation, as well as define the set of orthographic, distributional, and semantic properties of the compound's constituents that co-determine the preference for one of the available realisations. We explore iconicity and economy as competing motivations for both the diachronic change and synchronous preferences in spelling. Observed patterns of written production closely mirror the demands and strategies of recognition of compound words in reading. Orthographic choices that go against the reader's economy of effort come with a high recognition cost, as evidenced in inflated lexical decision and naming latencies to concatenated compounds that occur in other spelling formats.
影响因子：
4.3
作者：
Jaeger, T. Florian
通讯作者：
Jaeger, T. Florian