Meaning Predictability in Word Formation: Novel, context-free naming units - Couverture rigide

Štekauer, Pavol

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9027215634 ISBN 13 : 9789027215635

Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2005

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9027215634
• ISBN 13: 9789027215635
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 311
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible