Processing of compound nouns: Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic investigations

作为dpg项目的延续，我们研究了人类对德语复合名词的处理，以确定(a)哪些词汇语义因素影响对这些刺激的处理，(b)词汇化化合物的处理是否涉及概念组合过程，以及(c)引理信息的获取是否不仅在整个词水平上，而且在成分水平上（尤其是非词头成分）。为此(a)分析100个复合目标的失语图片命名数据，分析词汇频率（整词和成分）、成分位置和习得年龄（整词和成分）等因素对患者个体功能障碍模式的潜在影响；(b)以gagn<s:1>及其同事的概念组合理论为理论框架和出发点，对失语者和非失语者进行实验研究，确定复合成分（修饰语和词头）之间的主题关系的作用；(c)利用失语和非失语受试者的性别决策任务，研究了性别句法特征（引理水平）（词头和修饰语）的影响。作为一种主要的假设，人们认为复合是基于概念和句法加工水平上的建构性和组合性词汇能力。

The human processing of German compound nouns is investigated (in continuation of DFG-Project in order to determine (a) which lexical-semantic factors affect processing of these stimuli,, (b) whether conceptual-combinatory processes are involved in the processing of lexicalized compounds, and (c) whether lemma information is accessed not only at the whole-word level but also at the level of the components (and in particular the non-head constituents). For that purpose (a) the aphasic picture naming data for 100 compound targets are analyzed regarding the potential impact of the factors of lexical frequency (whole word and components), component position and age of acquisition (whole word and components) on the patients´ indovidual patterns of functional disturbance;(b) experimental investigations are run with aphasic and non-aphasic speakers determining the role of thematic relations between the compound components (modifier and head) with Gagné and co-workers´theory of conceptual combination as theoretical framework and starting point ;(c) the influence of the syntactic feature of gender (lemma level) (head and also modifier) is investigated using gender decision tasks with aphasic and non-aphasic subjects.As a leading hypothesis it is assumed that compounding is based on constructive and compositional lexical capacities both on a conceptual and a syntactic level of processsing.