Influence of the field of education on meaning predictability of novel compounds  

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Janovcova, Lenka

Jenis: Article from Journal
Dalam koleksi: SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics vol. 9 no. 2 (Feb. 2012), page 27-42.
Topik: meaning predictability; novel compounds; natural sciences; humanities
Fulltext: Lenka Janovcová.pdf (491.27KB)

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This paper discusses the impact of language users’ field of education on their meaning prediction processes. It’s main aim is to compare students of natural sciences with students of humanities in terms of meaning predictability (Štekauer, 2005). The results of the experiment, based on an analysis of a sample of ten English non-existing novel compounds, indicate that the field of education of language users belongs to extra-linguistic factors influencing meaning prediction of novel naming units. Differences in meaning prediction between the studied groups observed on the experimental sample of new compounds are both of quantitative and qualitative nature.

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