Alexander Taikh
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alexander Taikh is involved.
2026 Comparing typing production of literal and figurative statements in the TypeRacer database The Mental Lexicon: Online-First Articles | Article
Typing involves identifying and encoding the to-be-typed word, computing its meaning, and planning and executing the appropriate keystroke sequence. Measures of typing, such as keystroke latencies, are thus thought to reflect the processing of linguistic information. Using keystroke data from… read more
2024 The influence of uppercase letter location on typing multiword passphrases Words in the World, Teddiman, Laura, Lori Buchanan and Hamad Al-Azary (eds.), pp. 161–169 | Article
Organizational policies for passwords and passphrases require certain criteria, such as minimum length or uppercase letters, to be met, often resulting in a tradeoff between complexity and ease of typing. Uppercase letters, specifically, lead to slower and more error prone entries. Our present… read more
2024 The influence of semantic primes on the typing of word targets Words in the World, Teddiman, Laura, Lori Buchanan and Hamad Al-Azary (eds.), pp. 126–134 | Article
Typing is a complex activity involving identifying and encoding the to-be-typed word, planning, and executing the keystrokes. Different mechanisms have been proposed to explain how contextual information about meaning influences the processing of a target word (for example, semantic priming),… read more
2023 Accessing the semantic and lexical information of constituents while typing compounds The Mental Lexicon 18:2, pp. 265–299 | Article
A key question in research concerning the typing production of morphologically complex words is whether the whole multimorphemic word is output ballistically or whether individual constituents are accessed during typing. To address this question, we examined keystroke latencies during the… read more
2022 Is meaning construction attempted during the processing of pseudo-compounds? The Mental Lexicon 17:2, pp. 277–299 | Article
Psycholinguists have yet to reach a consensus on what role constituent morphemes play in the processing of compound words, although some recent work suggests that morphemes are activated obligatorily during processing. In the current study, we investigate whether people use morphemes to attempt… read more