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Direct linkMacizo, Pedro; Van Petten, Cyma; O'Rourke, Polly L. – Brain and Language, 2012
Many multisyllabic words contain shorter words that are not semantic units, like the CAP in HANDICAP and the DURA ("hard") in VERDURA ("vegetable"). The spaces between printed words identify word boundaries, but spurious identification of these embedded words is a potentially greater challenge for spoken language comprehension, a challenge that is…
Descriptors: Semantics, Oral Language, Speech, Comprehension
