Complex compounds in German: Interword spaces facilitate segmentation but hinder assignment of meaning

By A. Inhoff, Ralph R. Radach, D. Heller. 2000

119 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

The length of a complex word modifies the role of morphological structure: Evidence from eye movements when reading short and long Finnish compounds (2003, background): “Inhoff, Radach, and Heller (2000) presented German compounds with three constituents (e.g., DATA/ SCHUTZ/EXPERT data protection expert ) to native speakers in various ways: concatenated, with capitals for the first letter of each constituent, and with spaces between the constituents.”
Parafoveal processing in reading (2011, background): “See also Inhoff, Radach, and Heller (2000) for the facilitative effect of spacing on processing long German words.”
Eye movements when reading spaced and unspaced Thai and English : a comparison of Thai–English bilinguals and English monolinguals (2009, background): “However, the gaze duration and total fixation duration measures do give support, and are considered reliable time course processing measures and indicators of later lexical access (Inhoff et al., 2000; Juhasz et al., 2005).”
The 35th Sir Frederick Bartlett Lecture: Eye movements and attention in reading, scene perception, and visual search (2009, background): “Also, work with three-lexeme compound words in German has shown that inserting spaces between the lexemes actually reduces overall reading time on the compounds (Inhoff, Radach, & Heller, 2000a ).”