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Memory of formulaic sequences in L2 retention of chunks featuring inchoative uses of unaccusative verbs

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Szcześniak K.

Linguistica Silesiana

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2022

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tom 43

43-64

EN

This study investigates learners’ processing of English unaccusative verbs in the inchoative frame (The door opened; Oil is spilling). Previous approaches explained L2 difficulty with the inchoative construction in terms of learners’ L1 and their perception of discourse or semantic factors hypothesized to be responsible for common overpassivization errors (The door was opened). The purpose of the present study is to complement the extant inventory by proposing an additional factor instrumental in L2 processing. It is hypothesized that L2 use of unaccusative verbs is contingent on learners’ familiarity with formulaic expressions exemplifying the inchoative construction. The study focuses on the entrenchment of frequent phrases like My jaw dropped in Czech and Polish learners. In a lexical decision task, their reaction times for frequent expressions were found to be faster and fewer mistakes were made than in the case of non-formulaic counterparts (My hair dropped).

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Is a Step through the Door a Way to Take a Doorstep? A Psycholinguistic Study on Polish Compound Words

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Hwaszcz K.

Anglica Wratislaviensia

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2018

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nr 56

205 - 230

EN

The present study concentrates on the organization of the mental lexicon with regard to semantic transparency in the representation of Polish compounds. Its aim was to test current approaches to the processing of morphologically complex words in a lexical decision experiment with the use of visually presented Polish compound and simple words. The existing psycholinguistic approaches centre around the same question: are complex words parsed into their constituent parts or are they stored as full-word representations in the human mental lexicon? I referred to five widely acknowledged models of morphological processing to account for the outcomes of the present study. The data reveal that: (i) transparent compounds primed by words semantically related to the heads of these transparent compounds elicited faster response times than opaque compounds within the same condition; and (ii) priming speeds up the processing for both transparent and opaque compounds. The results indicate that the processing of Polish compound words is influenced by semantic transparency and that both transparent and opaque compounds are decomposed into their constituents prior to lexical access.

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Processing and Representation of Different Types of Czech Affixes

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Julínková R. , Bordag D.

Studie z aplikované lingvistiky - Studies in Applied Linguistics

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2015

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tom 6

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nr 2

52-75

EN

The study investigates the processing of morphologically complex words in Czech. In Experiment 1 we employed morphological repetition priming to test the Split Morphology Hypothesis, i.e. whether derived and inflected word forms are stored in the same or different manner in the Czech mental lexicon. The results demonstrate significantly larger priming effects for inflected forms compared to derived forms indicating distinct processing of inflection and derivation in Czech; while inflected forms are fully decomposed during language comprehension, derived forms are either not, or only partially. In Experiment 2 we addressed two research questions. First, we tested the psycholinguistic reality of the linguistic distinction between two types of inflective verbal prefixes: (a) “purely” inflective aspectual prefixes (i.e. the prefix turns an imperfective verb into a perfective one as in hřešit (imp.; ‘to sin’) — zhřešit (perf.)) and (b) derivational verbal prefixes (e.g. krátit (imp.; ‘to shorten’) — zkrátit (perf.)). The results did not indicate any evidence that this distinction would be psycholinguistically grounded. Second, we examined the role of semantic transparency of the derivational prefixes in the processing. The experiment delivered evidence of slower processing of opaque derived verbs, most likely caused by double search/reanalysis.

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The Role of Semantic Transparency in the Processing of Compound Words in Polish: Evidence from a Masked Priming Experiment

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Hwaszcz K. , Klimek-Jankowska D.

Studies in Polish Linguistics

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2017

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tom 12

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nr 3

145-171

PL

Przedmiotem artykułu jest weryfikacja istniejących modeli psycholingwistycznych opisujących przetwarzanie wyrazów morfologicznie złożonych w mentalnym leksykonie. Wszystkie te modele koncentrują się na pytaniu, czy wyrazy morfologicznie złożone są dekomponowane na bieżąco podczas przetwarzania języka, czy są one przechowywane jako nierozłączna całość. Aby odpowiedzieć na to pytanie, zaplanowaliśmy eksperyment z wykorzystaniem torowania semantycznego i decyzji leksykalnej, dla dwóch typów polskich wyrazów złożonych: (i) transparentnych znaczeniowo (przewidywalnych, np. bajkopisarz) i (ii) nietransparentnych znaczeniowo (nieprzewidywalnych, np. żółtodziób), gdzie jednostkami prymującymi były wyrazy semantycznie związane z ośrodkami tych wyrazów złożonych (np. autor i buzia). Otrzymane wyniki zostały skonfrontowane z podobnymi badaniami, które skupiały się na przetwarzaniu wyrazów złożonych w innych językach. Niniejsze badanie dostarcza nowych danych z języka polskiego i demonstruje, że transparentne wyrazy złożone wywoływały istotnie krótsze czasy reakcji, niż nietransparentne wyrazy złożone. Wyniki te można zinterpretować jako dowód na to, że transparentne wyrazy złożone są dekomponowane i możliwy jest dostęp do lemm ich części składowych, a nietransparentne wyrazy złożone nie są dekomponowane, a lemmy ich komponentów są niedostępne.

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The main goal of the reported study is to test the cross-linguistic validity of the existing psycholinguistic models of morphological processing by contributing the results of a masked priming lexical decision experiment on the processing of Polish semantically transparent and opaque compounds. All these models are concerned with the question of whether morphologically complex words are decomposed during online processing or whether they are stored as chunks in the mental lexicon. We contribute new data from Polish showing that reaction times to target words semantically related to the heads of transparent compounds were significantly faster than to target words semantically related to the heads of opaque compounds in Polish. This may be interpreted as evidence in favour of the view that semantically transparent compound words are decomposed and we access the lemmas of their constituent elements whereas semantically opaque compounds are not decomposed and there is no access to their constituent lemmas.