Introduction

How language users from different linguistic backgrounds cope with forms of complexity is still a territory with many unanswered questions.

Content Overview

The current book is concerned with morphologically and syntactically complex items, that is, derivatives, inflected forms, compounds, phrases and forms related by agreement and examines how these constructions are acquired and learned in a great range of different languages, such as Turkish, Welsh, Basque and Catalan.

Methodologies and Data

Relying on a variety of methodologies targeting production or comprehension, among others, lexical decision and priming experiments, an EEG study, a corpus analysis and a reading test, the authors consider data from native speakers mastering one or more languages and second-language users.

Conclusion

Overall, the volume reflects upon and contributes to our understanding of how the peculiarities of language and its users affect the learnability of complex forms.