The Whorfian hypothesis that language may influence other cognitive processes has recently become a major topic in psycholinguistics and neuroscience, probably because evidence in this area is ...

1 Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA 2 Department of Anglo-Germanic Languages, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Psycholinguistic and ...

Compound words are lexical items that comprise two or more words. On that basis, there are primarily three categories of compound words; these are the hyphenated, the spaced and the single-word ...

Compound words are formed when two or more separate words are joined together. This creates a brand new word that often has a new meaning. I think I see a pattern emerging. It's a football. Some snow ...