The prime lexicality effect: Form-priming as a function of prime awareness, lexical status, and discrimination difficulty.

1998 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 498-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth I. Forster ◽  
Csaba Veres
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Status ◽  
Prime Lexicality Effect

Effects of lexical status and morphological complexity in masked priming

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna A. Morris ◽  
James Porter ◽  
Jonathan Grainger ◽  
Phillip J. Holcomb
Keyword(s):  
Masked Priming ◽  
Lexical Status ◽  
Morphological Complexity

scholarly journals Unsupervised Type and Token Identification of Idiomatic Expressions

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afsaneh Fazly ◽  
Paul Cook ◽  
Suzanne Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Specific Property ◽  
Identification Task ◽  
Lexical Status ◽  
Everyday Language ◽  
Actual Usage ◽  
Statistical Measures ◽  
Idiomatic Expressions ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
How People Learn

Idiomatic expressions are plentiful in everyday language, yet they remain mysterious, as it is not clear exactly how people learn and understand them. They are of special interest to linguists, psycholinguists, and lexicographers, mainly because of their syntactic and semantic idiosyncrasies as well as their unclear lexical status. Despite a great deal of research on the properties of idioms in the linguistics literature, there is not much agreement on which properties are characteristic of these expressions. Because of their peculiarities, idiomatic expressions have mostly been overlooked by researchers in computational linguistics. In this article, we look into the usefulness of some of the identified linguistic properties of idioms for their automatic recognition. Specifically, we develop statistical measures that each model a specific property of idiomatic expressions by looking at their actual usage patterns in text. We use these statistical measures in a type-based classification task where we automatically separate idiomatic expressions (expressions with a possible idiomatic interpretation) from similar-on-the-surface literal phrases (for which no idiomatic interpretation is possible). In addition, we use some of the measures in a token identification task where we distinguish idiomatic and literal usages of potentially idiomatic expressions in context.

scholarly journals Influence of speaking rate and lexical status on word identification

1984 ◽  
Vol 76 (S1) ◽  
pp. S89-S89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne L Miller ◽  
Emily R. Dexter ◽  
Kimberly A. Pickard
Keyword(s):  
Word Identification ◽  
Speaking Rate ◽  
Lexical Status

Word knowledge, learning and acquisition in a second language: Proposed replications of Elgort (2011) and Qiao and Forster (2017)

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Irina Elgort
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Word Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Word Knowledge ◽  
L2 Word Learning ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
To Come ◽  
Prime Lexicality Effect ◽  
The Mind ◽  
L2 Vocabulary

AbstractWhat does it mean to learn a word? How can we tell when a sequence of letters or sounds becomes a word in the mind of the learner? While many second language (L2) vocabulary teaching and learning studies continue to use traditional vocabulary tests to measure learning (such as multiple choice, translation, gap-fill), these measures tend to come short when researchers want to address theoretical questions about the nature of L2 word knowledge. In the present paper, I argue for conceptualising word learning as lexicalisation, which necessitates the use of alternative approaches to measuring learning. I then propose approximate and conceptual replications of two theoretically motivated L2 word learning studies, Elgort (2011) and Qiao and Forster (2017), that used the Prime Lexicality Effect as a measure of lexicalisation of deliberately learned L2 words.

The influence of lexical status and neighborhood density on children's nonword repetition

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMIE L. METSALA ◽  
GINA M. CHISHOLM
Keyword(s):  
Neighborhood Density ◽  
Nonword Repetition ◽  
Lexical Knowledge ◽  
Lexical Status ◽  
Target Syllable

ABSTRACTThis study examined effects of lexical status and neighborhood density of constituent syllables on children's nonword repetition and interactions with nonword length. Lexical status of the target syllable impacted repetition accuracy for the longest nonwords. In addition, children made more errors that changed a nonword syllable to a word syllable than the reverse. Syllables from dense versus sparse neighborhoods were repeated more accurately in three- and four-syllable nonwords, but there was no effect of density for two-syllable nonwords. The effect of neighborhood density was greater for a low versus high vocabulary group. Finally, children's error responses were from more dense neighborhoods than the target syllables. The results are congruent with models of nonword repetition that emphasize the influence of long-term lexical knowledge on children's performance.

De la possibilité de suppression du régime des expressions prépositives de concession, comparaison, addition et destination

Revue Romane ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-170
Author(s):  
Silvia Adler
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Status ◽  
Semantic Class

This article pursues a series of studies on French expressions commonly called “prepositional locutions” whose dual goal is, first, the treatment of their lexical status and, second, the possibilities of anaphorisation by a simple suppression of their complement, operation often attributed to the procedure of ellipsis. These studies have concentrated each on the analysis of a specific semantic class of prepositional locutions: spatial, temporal and notional (more precisely, final, causal and consecutive) expressions (cf. Adler, 2006, to appear a, b). The present paper constitutes an additional stage in the puzzle already rather advanced of the analysis of the prepositional locutions, and covers other semantic subclasses: concession, opposition, addition and destination.

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