This study is planned to examine whether decomposition processes between modifier and head are necessary processes in the interpretation of compound nouns and whether lexicality semantic transparency make an influence on the decomposition processes of...
This study is planned to examine whether decomposition processes between modifier and head are necessary processes in the interpretation of compound nouns and whether lexicality semantic transparency make an influence on the decomposition processes of compound nouns. In Experiment 1, the influence of lexicality on the decomposition process were analyzed by the masked priming task. Significant priming effects were found in whole and part condition and the difference between two conditions were not significant. In Experiment 2, It was investigated that the semantic transparency of morphemes had an influence on the decomposition process and similar results as experiment 1 were found. In conclusion, the decompositon process is pre-lexical and necessary process in the interpretation of compound nouns