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MEANING PREDICTABILITY IN WORD FORMATION
NOVEL, CONTEXT-FREE NAMING UNITS |
| By: |
Pavol Stekauer |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£101.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9027294569 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789027294562 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
18 March, 2005 |
| Series: |
Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 54 |
| Pages: |
311 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
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John Benjamins Publishing Co |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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