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Explored the role of semantic transparency for english com-pound words using a masked priming paradigm. In this ex-periment, the prime was the compound word and the target was either the beginning or ending lexeme. Both transparent and opaque compounds significantly primed their constituents.
The first part of the book gives an overview of semantic transparency in the analysis of compound nouns, discussing its role in models of morphological processing and differentiating it from.
4 nov 2019 peter trudgill offers examples of non-transparent and transparent compounds: the english word dentist is not semantically transparent.
It taps into a degree of semantic overlap between the compound and its constituents and gauges how strong the semantic contribution of a constituent is in the meaning of a compound.
Two sets of the opaque words were partially opaque: either the first constituent was not related to the meaning of the compound (opaque‐transparent) or the second constituent was not related to the meaning of the compound (transparent‐opaque). In the third set (opaque‐opaque), neither constituent was related to the meaning of the compound. For all three sets, there was no significant difference between the opaque and the transparent words on any eye‐movement measure.
Semantically transparent, while “case” is considered opaque. However, this computation for english words may or may not reflect how a chinese rater classifies a constituent as transparent/opaque for two-character chinese words. One possible solution is to access the primary meaning of a constituent.
To this end, semantic transparency ratings were elicited among fifteen native speakers of english for 222 metaphorical english idioms.
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Semantic transparency of noun-noun compounds in chinese and english: a case of 'ji(机)' and 'machine' - noun-noun compounds;semantic transparency.
This work approaches these questions by investigating english compound nouns. The first part of the book gives an overview of semantic transparency in the analysis of compound nouns, discussing its role in models of morphological processing and differentiating it from related notions. After a chapter on the semantic analysis of complex nominals, it closes with a chapter on previous attempts to model semantic transparency.
A textbook case of semantic transparency is exemplified by words like readable or manageable because, so writes plag (2003: 46), ‘their meaning is predictable on the basis of the word-formation rule according to which they have been formed’. For compounds, which will be the focus of our study, we find that the criterion of meaning predictability is sometimes replaced by one of meaning relatedness.
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11 sep 2016 semantic transparency is widely believed to affect the processing of compound words.
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Linguistic transparency is a phrase which is used in multiple, overlapping subjects in the fields in the field of lexical semantics, semantic transparency (in adjective form: semantically the semantic transparency of english compo.
Individual variability in the semantic processing of english compound words. Semantic transparency effects during compound word recognition provide critical insight into the organization of semantic knowledge and the nature of semantic processing. The past 25 years of psycholinguistic research on compound semantic transparency has produced discrepant effects, leaving the existence and nature of its influence unresolved.
In the field of lexical semantics, semantic transparency (in adjective form: semantically transparent) is a measure of the degree to which the meaning of a multimorphemic combination can be synchronically related to the meaning of its constituents.
Experiment 1 examined whether the semantic transparency of an english unspaced compound word affected how long it took to process it in reading.
This study reports two masked priming studies with english -ness and russian - ost' nominalisations, investigating how semantic transparency modulates native.
What is semantic transparency, why is it important, and which factors play a role in its assessment? this work approaches these questions by investigating english compound nouns. The first part of the book gives an overview of semantic transparency in the analysis of compound nouns, discussing its role in models of morphological processing and differentiating it from related notions.
5 apr 2019 semantic transparency deals with the interface between lexical semantics and morphology.
The present study explored the role of semantic transparency for english compound words. Transparent and opaque compounds were embedded into sentences and the frequencies of their lexemes were manipulated. Analysis of gaze durations revealed main effects of lexeme frequency and transparency.
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