Lexical and Relational Influences on the Processing of Novel Compounds  

Oleh:

Gagne, Christina L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 81 no. 1-3 (2002), page 723-735.
Topik: compounds; noun–noun combinations; semantic priming; relation priming; conceptual combination; nominal compounding
Fulltext: 81_01-03_Gagn-.pdf (62.78KB)

Isi artikel

To interpret a novel compound (e.g., chocolate twig), one must access the concepts denoted by the words and select a relation that links them together. To examine the role of lexical and relation information on conceptual combination, target combinations were preceded by one of three prime combinations. In Experiment 1, the prime used a semantically similar head noun and either the same or different relation. The third prime was semantically unrelated to the target. Experiment 2 was identical, except the modifier was the semantically related constituent. Although semantic priming was observed in both experiments, relation priming was obtained only when the modifier was similar.

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