Alexander Taikh

List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexander Taikh plays a role.

Organizational policies for passwords and passphrases require certain criteria, such as minimum length or uppercase letters, to be met, often resulting in a tradeoff between complexity and ease of typing. Uppercase letters, specifically, lead to slower and more error prone entries. Our present… read more
Typing is a complex activity involving identifying and encoding the to-be-typed word, planning, and executing the keystrokes. Different mechanisms have been proposed to explain how contextual information about meaning influences the processing of a target word (for example, semantic priming),… read more
Taikh, Alexander, Christina L. Gagné and Thomas L. Spalding 2023 Accessing the semantic and lexical information of constituents while typing compoundsThe Mental Lexicon 18:2, pp. 265–299 | Article
A key question in research concerning the typing production of morphologically complex words is whether the whole multimorphemic word is output ballistically or whether individual constituents are accessed during typing. To address this question, we examined keystroke latencies during the… read more
Cruz, Karen Pérez, Chelsa Patel, Jazlynn Steinbach, Mohamed Barre, Holly Kibbins, Dixie Wong, Alexander Taikh, Christina L. Gagné and Thomas L. Spalding 2022 Is meaning construction attempted during the processing of pseudo-compounds?The Mental Lexicon 17:2, pp. 277–299 | Article
Psycholinguists have yet to reach a consensus on what role constituent morphemes play in the processing of compound words, although some recent work suggests that morphemes are activated obligatorily during processing. In the current study, we investigate whether people use morphemes to attempt… read more