The Representation and Processing of Compound Words

Gary Libben is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics at the University of Alberta. He is the co-author, with M. Paradis, of The Assessment of Bilingual Aphasia (Erlbaum, 1987) and, with J. Archibald, of Research Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition (Copp, Clark, Pitman, 1995). Gonia Jarema is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Montreal and Director of the Mental Lexicon Laboratory at the Research Centre of the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal. Her field of research is the psycho- and neurolinguistics of the mental lexicon from a cross-linguistic perspective. Gary Jarema and Gonia Libben have been guest editors of Brain and Language and Folia Linguistica. They have both served as Directors of the International Mental Lexicon Research Group of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. They are Editors of the journal The Mental Lexicon.

• 1. Why Study Compound Processing? An Overview of the Issues ; 2. Compound Types ; 3. Compound Representation and Processing: A Cross-language Perspective ; 4. The Neuropsychology of Compound Words ; 5. Preschool Children's Acquisition of Compounds ; 6. Doghouse/Chien-maison/Niche: Approaches to the Understanding of Compounds Processing in Bilinguals ; 7. Conceptual Combination: Implictions for the Mental Lexicon ; 8. Processing Chinese Compounds: A Survey of the Literature ; References ; Index

...a good introduction to the issues that arise in doing research on compounds, and is instructive in illustrating how studying compounds provides insight into the nature of lexical access and the lexicon.