New Resource: LaDEC: Large database of English compounds

Words in the World collaborators Christina Gagne, Thomas Spalding, and Daniel Schmidtke announce the Large Database of English Compounds (LaDEC).

This open access paper presents the Large Database of English Compounds (LaDEC) which consists of 8000+ English compound words as well as various analyses using the database to examine various theoretical questions concerning the influence of semantics, orthography, morphology, and sentiment on compound word processing.

The article can be found here:  https://rdcu.be/bLNYT

The database can be found here: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/dc3b9033-14d0-48d7-b6fa-6398a30e61e4

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