Learning of novel compound nouns – A variant of lexical learning that requires intact verbal short-term memory

Cortex3.60
Volume: 124, Pages: 23 - 32
Published: Mar 1, 2020
Abstract
Verbal short-term memory (vSTM) plays a crucial role in word learning, and patients with impaired vSTM have been demonstrated to fail on learning novel word forms. Word learning has exclusively been investigated with previously unknown or pseudowords. Several languages, however, make use of composition, i.e., combining morphemes into compounds. On the one hand, this is comparable to pseudoword learning because known elements are combined into...
Paper Details
Title
Learning of novel compound nouns – A variant of lexical learning that requires intact verbal short-term memory
Published Date
Mar 1, 2020
Journal
Volume
124
Pages
23 - 32
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