Abstract
The Dutch low-frequency morphologically complex word branding, ‘surf, the rolling and splashing of the waves’ (7 occurrences per million), consists of two high-frequency constituents, brand, ‘fire, to burn’ (111 occurrences per million), and the nominalizing suffix -ing (13330 occurrences per million. Semantically opaque words such as branding pose an interesting challenge for dual route models of morphological processing in word recognition that allow complex words to be recognized by means of both a direct route and a parsing route (Baayen, Dijkstra, Schreuder, 1997; Burani Laudanna, 1992; Frauenfelder & Schreuder, 1992; Laudanna & Burani, 1995; Schreuder & Baayen, 1995).
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Schreuder, R., Burani, C., Baayen, R.H. (2003). Parsing and Semantic Opacity. In: Assink, E.M.H., Sandra, D. (eds) Reading Complex Words. Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol 22. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3720-2_8
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