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2024. Typing /s/—morphology between the keys?. Reading and Writing
Yousefzadeh, Bahareh, Gary Libben & Sidney J. Segalowitz
2024. Persian compounds in the mental lexicon. Frontiers in Communication 9
Breadmore, Helen L., Emily Côté & S. Hélène Deacon
2023. The Timing Tells the Tale: Multiple Morphological Processes in Children’s and Adults’ Spelling. Scientific Studies of Reading 27:5 ► pp. 408 ff.
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2022. Exploring the Processing of Japanese Compound Verbs: Evidence from Unmasked Priming Lexical Decision Task. International Journal of Asian Language Processing 32:01
Libben, Gary, Jordan Gallant & Wolfgang U. Dressler
2021. Textual Effects in Compound Processing: A Window on Words in the World. Frontiers in Communication 6
2018. The Morphosemantic Transparency/Opacity of Novel English Analogical Compounds and Compound Families. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 53:1 ► pp. 67 ff.
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