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Abstract: Section and selected chapter headings: Visual Word Processing Traces of print along the visual pathway (TA Nazir) Processing of Finnish compound words in reading (J Hyona, A Pollatsek) Attention, Information Processing and Eye Movement Control Relations between spatial and temporal aspects of eye movement control (R Radach, D Heller) Eye guidance and the saliency of word beginnings in reading text (W Vonk et al) Phonology in Reading The assembly of phonology in Italian and English: consonants and vowels (L Colombo) Do readers use phonological codes to activate word meanings? Evidence from eye movements (M Daneman, EM Reingold) Syntax and Discourse Processing Decoupling syntactic parsing from visual inspection: the case of relative clause attachment in French (J Pynte, S Colonna) Unrestricted race: a new model of syntactic ambiguity resolution (RPG van Gompel et al) Models and Simulations Eye fixation durations in reading: models of frequency distributions (GW McConkie, BP Dyre) Subject index

Abstract: Three lexical decision experiments using a variant of the semantic priming technique tested the hypothesis that compound words are morphologically decomposed during recognition. If a compound const...

Abstract: The last 40 years have witnessed a growing interest in the mechanisms underlying the visual identification of complex words A large amount of experimental data has been amassed, but although a growing number of studies are proposing explicit theoretical models for their data, no comprehensive theory has gained substantial agreement among scholars in the field We believe that this is due, at least in part, to the presence of several controversial pieces of evidence in the literature and, consequently, to the lack of a well-defined set of experimental facts that any theory should be able to explain With this review, we aim to delineate the state of the art in the research on the visual identification of complex words By reviewing major empirical evidences in a number of different paradigms such as lexical decision, word naming, and masked and unmasked priming, we were able to identify a series of effects that we judge as reliable or that were consistently replicated in different experiments, along with some more controversial data, which we have tried to resolve and explain We concentrated on behavioral and electrophysiological studies on inflected, derived and compound words, so as to span over all types of complex words The outcome of this work is an analytical summary of well-established facts on the most relevant morphological issues, such as regularity, morpheme position coding, family size, semantic transparency, morpheme frequency, suffix allomorphy and productivity, morphological entropy, and morpho-orthographic parsing In discussing this set of benchmark effects, we have drawn some methodological considerations on why contrasting evidence might have emerged, and have tried to delineate a target list for the construction of a new all-inclusive model of the visual identification of morphologically complex words