Journal article
Moving spaces: Spelling alternation in English noun-noun compounds
Abstract
The present study explores linguistic predictors and behavioural implications of the orthographic alternation between a spaced (bell tower), hyphenated (bell-tower), and concatenated (belltower) format observed in English compound words. On the basis of two English corpora, we model the evolution of spelling for compounds undergoing lexicalisation, as well as define the set of orthographic, distributional, and semantic properties of the …
Authors
Kuperman V; Bertram R
Journal
Language Cognition and Neuroscience, Vol. 28, No. 7, pp. 939–966
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
September 2013
DOI
10.1080/01690965.2012.701757
ISSN
2327-3798