naa a22 4500 510742300 CHVBK 20180411083032.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11525-013-9212-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11525-013-9212-x Semantic and prosodic effects of Dutch linking elements [Elektronische Daten] [Esther Hanssen, Arina Banga, Robert Schreuder, Anneke Neijt] The studies presented here investigate the contribution of linking -en- and rhythm to a compound's conceptual plurality. Participants were asked to estimate the conceptual plurality of the modifier constituents of Dutch compounds. In the first study, pseudo-compounds (compounds composed of pseudo-words, burb+en+tijpis) and novel compounds (novel combinations of existing nouns, aap+en+leraar, ‘monkey teacher') with linking -en- were investigated. In study two, we examined written existing compounds that occur with and without -en- (bloem+bak or bloem+en+bak, ‘flower box') and present a stress clash or not at the constituent boundaries. Finally, study three investigated the same question as study two for spoken existing compounds. The results reveal that existing compounds written or spoken with linking -en- are considered to bear more plural meaning than the ones without linking element. Furthermore, an effect of rhythm on plurality was observed in pseudo-compounds and in spoken existing compounds. When these compounds contain linking -en- to prevent a stress clash, they are considered to bear less plural meaning than those with linking -en- in a neutral context. These studies demonstrate that rhythm can affect the interpretation of linking elements. The fact that we only find a rhythmic effect in pseudo-compounds and spoken existing compounds but not in written existing compounds is explained in terms of processing. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Compounds nationallicence Linking elements nationallicence Semantics nationallicence Morphology nationallicence Phonology nationallicence Dutch nationallicence Hanssen Esther Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH, Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut Banga Arina Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH, Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut Schreuder Robert Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH, Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut Neijt Anneke Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH, Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut Morphology Springer Netherlands 23/1(2013-02-01), 7-32 1871-5621 23:1<7 2013 23 11525 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-013-9212-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-013-9212-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hanssen Esther Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH, Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Banga Arina Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH, Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schreuder Robert Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH, Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Neijt Anneke Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH, Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Morphology Springer Netherlands 23/1(2013-02-01), 7-32 1871-5621 23:1<7 2013 23 11525 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer