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Meaning predictability in word formation : novel, context-free naming units /
This book aims to contribute to a growing interest amongst psycholinguists and morphologists in the mechanisms of meaning predictability. It presents a brand-new model of the meaning-prediction of novel, context-free naming units, relating the wordformation and wordinterpretation processes. Unlike p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Studies in functional and structural linguistics ;
v. 54. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book aims to contribute to a growing interest amongst psycholinguists and morphologists in the mechanisms of meaning predictability. It presents a brand-new model of the meaning-prediction of novel, context-free naming units, relating the wordformation and wordinterpretation processes. Unlike previous studies, mostly focussed on N+N compounds, the scope of this book is much wider. It not only covers all types of complex words, but also discusses a whole range of predictability-boosting and -reducing conditions. Two measures are introduced, the Predictability Rate and the Objectified Predictability Rate, in order to compare the strength of predictable readings both within a word and relative to the most predictable readings of other coinages. Four extensive experiments indicate inter alia the equal predicting capacity of native and non-native speakers, the close interconnection between linguistic and extra-linguistic factors, the important role of prototypical semes, and the usual dominance of a single central reading. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 288 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-282) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1423761014 9781423761013 9789027215635 9027215634 9781588116338 1588116336 9789027294562 9027294569 1282156845 9781282156845 9786612156847 6612156848 |
| ISSN: | 0165-7712 ; |