CAOSS and transcendence: Modeling role-dependent constituent meanings in compounds

Abstract Many theories on the role of semantics in morphological representation and processing focus interplay between lexicalized meaning complex word one hand, individual constituent meanings other hand. However, representations at play do not necessarily correspond to free-word constituents: Role-dependent can be subject sometimes substantial semantic shift from their corresponding (such as -bill hornbill razorbill , or step- stepmother stepson ). While this phenomenon is extremely difficult operationalize using standard psycholinguistic toolkit, we demonstrate how these as-constituent represented a quantitative manner data-driven computational model. After qualitative exploration, validate model against large database human ratings retention constituents compounds. With then proceed investigate internal structure compounds, focussing differences transparency two constituents.