title: "hotdog", not "hot" "dog": The phonological planning of compound words.
abstract: Do we saydogwhen we sayhotdog? In five experiments using the implicit priming paradigm, we assessed whether nominal compounds composed of two free morphemes likesawdustorfishbowlare prepared for production at the segmental level in the same way that two-syllable monomorphemic words (e.g.bandit) are, or instead as sequences of separable words (e.g.full bowlorgrey dust). The experiments demonstrated that nominal compounds are planned as a single sequence, not as two sequences. Specifically, the onset of the second component of the compound (e.g. /d/ insawdust) did not act as a primeable starting point, although comparable onsets did when that component was an independent word (grey dust). We conclude that there may be adoginhotdogat the morpheme level, but not when phonological segments are prepared for production.
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
authors.forename: Cassandra L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Jacobs
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
authors.forename: Gary S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Dell
keywords: compound words; language production; morphology; phonological planning; serial order