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Representation of Polish Compounds.
Authors:
REID A.A., & MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D.
Reference:
n M. Corley (Ed.),Proceedings of the 12th ESCOP and the 18th BPS Cognitive Section Conference (pp. 186). Edinburgh: European Society for Cognitive Psychology and British Psychological Society.
Year of publication:
2001
CBU number:
5161
Abstract:
An important requirement in studying the representation and access of morphologically complex words is to provide cross-linguistic evidence to help deconfound what is language universal from what is language specific. Little work has been done cross-linguistically on the representation of synthetic compounds, such as truck-driver, whose meanings are generally more predictable from the meanings of their constituent morphemes. We report results on the representation of Polish highly and moderately semantically transparent compounds with complex morphological structure, using an auditory-auditory delayed priming experiment with 12 intervening item lags between prime and target. The first group of compounds was judged as being highly semantically compositional, and the second group was not. Nonetheless, priming was obtained for both types of compound. The alternative theoretical implications of this are discussed.
