scholarly journals Psycholinguistic analysis of lexical-semantic structure in linguistic consciousness of Russian, English and German native speakers

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Sibul
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Lexical Semantic

SYNONYMY OF STABLE PHRASES IN THE DICTIONARY OF SMOLENSK DIALECTS: THE ANALYSIS EXPERIENCE

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-132
Author(s):  
Nina Maksimchuk
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
National Language ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
Key Word ◽  
The World ◽  
Volumetric Representation ◽  
High Level ◽  
Linguistic Units

The attention of modern linguistics to the study of verbal representatives of the mental essence (both individual and collective one) of the native speakers involves an appeal to all subsystems of the national language where territorial dialects take a significant part. The analysis of dialect linguistic units possessing linguistic and cultural value is considered as a necessary way for the study of people’s worldview and perception of the world, national mentality as a whole. The ability of stable phrases (phraseological units) to preserve and express a native speaker’s attitude to the world around them is the basis for the use of the analysis of folk phraseology as a way of penetration into a speaker’s spiritual world. Volumetric representation of the external and internal peculiarities of stable phrases allows the author to get their systematization in the form of phraseosemantic field consisting of different kinds singled out in phraseosemantic groups. The article deals with stable phrases of synonymic value recorded in the Dictionary of Smolensk dialects and stable phrases forming a phraseosemantic group. These phrases are analyzed taking into account the semantic structure of the key word, the characteristics of the dependent word, and the method of forming phraseological semantics. On the example of the analysis of phrases with the key word «bit’» and a synonymic series with the semantic dominant «bezdel’nichat’», the article discusses the peculiarities of phraseological nomination in Smolensk dialects and confirms a high level of connotativity and evaluation in the folk phraseology.

scholarly journals L3 Sentence Processing: Language-Specific or Phenomenon-Sensitive?

Languages ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Sokolova ◽  
Slabakova
Keyword(s):  
Sentence Processing ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Semantic Cues ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
L2 Processing ◽  
Processing Strategies ◽  
Reading Experiment ◽  
Linguistic Decision Making ◽  
Matrix Verb ◽  
Processing Language

The article investigates non-native sentence processing and examines the existing scholarly approaches to L2 processing with a population of L3 learners of English, whose native language is Russian. In a self-paced reading experiment, native speakers of Russian and English, as well as (low) intermediate L3 learners of English, read ambiguous relative clauses (RC) and decided on their attachment interpretation: high attachment (HA) or low attachment (LA). In the two-by-two design, linguistic decision-making was prompted by lexical semantic cues vs. a structural change caused by a certain type of matrix verb. The results show that whenever a matrix verb caused a change of syntactic modification, which entailed HA, both native and non-native speakers abandoned the default English-like LA and chose HA. Lexical semantic cues did not have any significant effect in RC attachment resolution. The study provides experimental evidence in favor of the similarity of native and non-native processing strategies. Both native speakers and L3 learners of English apply structural processing strategies and show similar sensitivity to a linguistic prompt that shapes RC resolution. Native and non-native processing is found to be prediction-based; structure building is performed in a top-down manner.

On twittizens and city residents

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-41
Author(s):  
Elizaveta Tarasova ◽  
Natalia Beliaeva
Keyword(s):  
Formation Mechanism ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Semantic Level ◽  
Semantic Relationships ◽  
Experimental Findings

Abstract The present study analyses native speaker perceptions of the differences in the semantic structure of compounds and blends to specify whether the formal differences between compounds and blends are reflected on the semantic level. Viewpoints on blending vary, with some researchers considering it to be an instance of compounding (Kubozono, 1990), while others identify blending as an interim word formation mechanism between compounding and shortening (López Rúa, 2004). The semantic characteristics of English determinative blends and N+N subordinative compounds are compared by evaluating the differences in native speakers’ perceptions of the semantic relationships between constituents of the analysed structures. The results of two web-based experiments demonstrate that readers’ interpretations of both compounds and blends differ in terms of lexical indicators of semantic relations between the elements of these units. The experimental findings indicate that language users’ interpretation of both compounds and blends includes information on semantic relationships. The differences in the effect of the semantic relations on interpretations is likely to be connected to the degree of formal transparency of these units.

scholarly journals SEMANTICS OF THE KHANTY ADJECTIVES CHARACTERIZING WEATHER PHENOMENA

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-178
Author(s):  
ANASTASIA A. SHIYANOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Bilingual Dictionaries ◽  
Weather Events

The article considers the semantic structure of the Khanty adjectives characterizing weather phenomena. The study is carried out on the material of Western dialects of Khanty - Kazymsky, Shuryshkar and Priural. The material for the study was a card file composed of examples of bilingual dictionaries on the Khanty language, folklore collections and samples of spoken speech collected from Khanty native speakers. The result of the study was a description of the semantics of the language units characterizing weather events in all studied dialects of the Khanty language. Five word-building patterns were discovered for the adjectives: 1) «N+ =әӈ/=єӈ», 2) «N + =ԓы», 3) «N + =и/=ы», 4) «V + =ам/=әм», 5) «N + =ам». These adjectives form 4 lexico-semantic groups. Neither systematization of these lexico-semantic groups has been previously performed, nor the 5 word-building patterns have been previously reported in the literature devoted to the Khanty language. Another contribution was clarification of lexical units characterizing natural phenomena.

scholarly journals What psych verbs and other verbs disclose about the role of Semantic Prominence and Thematic Hierarchy in affixal selection

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
Alexandra Soares Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
European Portuguese ◽  
Psych Verbs

This paper analyses the construction of deverbal adjectives in European Portuguese, focusing on the interface between morphology and semantics, specifically on the role of Thematic Hierarchy and Semantic Prominence on affixal selection.Supported by paradigmatic morphology, the paper shows that suffixes that work in macro-paradigms of deverbal adjectives establish a relationship with specific semantic features of the lexical-semantic structure of the base verb in order to construct the derivative. The analysis concludes that suffixes are sensitive to thematic hierarchy, which is based on the semantic prominence of features of the verbs’ theta-roles at work in the paradigm. Data from psych verbs is highly relevant to this finding.The paper is dedicated to Professor Ana Maria Brito, who has always been keenly aware that scientific knowledge is not confined to a specific theory.

scholarly journals STUDY OF VERBS AND THEIR MEANINGS IN UKRAINIAN DIALECTS: A LINGUOGEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH

Movoznavstvo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 315 (6) ◽  
pp. 32-42
Author(s):  
O. M. KHOLODON ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Normal State ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Special Study ◽  
Marital Relations ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
Semantic Variation ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
Semantic Maps ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Verb Lexicon

Ukrainian dialectal verb lexicon and semantics are mapped near other dialectal vocabulary at phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactic levels in a number of linguogeographical sources. The problem of presentation of verb lexicon and semantics is demonstrated on the example of several linguogeographical works that can be divided into two groups. Works of the first group provide information about lexical verb variation. In these works the verb semes are mapped, e.g. Ukrainian dial. ʽhowl (about wolves)ʼ, ʽmeow (about cats)ʼ, ʽto meetʼ, Ukrainian-Slovakian ʽverbs that indicate cooking of leaven (for bread, etc.)ʼ, ʽto sow (hemp, flax)ʼ, ʽto comb the fiber on the brushʼ and Transcarpathian verb phraseology — the seme ʽa person (sick, drunk or in a normal state) sleeps so hard that nobody can wake him (e.g. спит, йак на глуха́н’у; спит, йак на глу́шу; спит’ глу́пно). The second group consists of works that provide information about lexical and different types realizations of verbs. Near other maps about lexical implementation of verb semes the authors give semantic maps, e.g., maps Middle Dnieper and Steppe лаˈтати [тʼ], Eastern Polissian кресати (that has meanings ʽto make fire with a flintʼ, ʽto make fire with a silicon lighterʼ, ʽto beat stone against stoneʼ, ʽto cut down a branchʼ, ʽto fell the woodʼ, ʽto hewʼ, ʽto cutʼ, ʽto go quicklyʼ, ʽto dance intensivelyʼ, ʽto sap with passionʼ, ʽto forge a sapʼ, ʽto swearʼ). It is established that in the atlas, dedicated to the special study of links between Carpatho-Ukrainian and Southern Slavic languages, verb lexicon is presented on lexical, semantic maps and verb spreading maps that contain the information about verb presence in the settlement. A linguogeographical source that represents Slavs’ traditional spiritual culture and presents names of actions related to interpersonal contacts, different feelings and emotions, marital relations, etc. is revealed. These names are presented on lexical, semantic, motivational and nominative verb maps. Analyzing the phenomenon of verb semantic variation, P.Yu. Gritsenko mapped the semantic structure of the dialectal verb at the supra-dialectal level and on the basis of distinguishing separate semes from the integral meaning of syntagma тереˈбити + Object he identified semantic subcomplexes. The study outlines vistas of further research into Ukrainian dialectal verbs and their semantics.

scholarly journals SILA ASSOCIATIVE FIELD: EVOLUTION OF CONTENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-115
Author(s):  
T.M. Nizamutinova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Far East ◽  
European Part ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Russian Language

The article is devoted to the analysis of changes in the content of the linguistic consciousness of the young generation of Russian native speakers in the period from 1988 to 2018 on the material of the SILA (force / power / strength) associative field according to associative dictionaries of the Russian language. In the process of analysis, differences are revealed in the semantic structure of the field and the value orientations of young people at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. The study was carried out by analyzing the reactions of the SILA associative field in the Russian Associative Dictionary (RAS), the Russian Regional Dictionary of the European Part (EURAS), the Russian Regional Associative Database (Siberia and the Far East) (SIBAS). As a result, differences in the value orientations of Russian young people have been revealed for the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

scholarly journals NOMINATIVE FIELD OF THE CONCEPT MARRIAGE AND ANALYSIS OF THE SYNONYMOUS RANGE OF ITS KEY UNIT

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (193) ◽  
pp. 218-224
Author(s):  
Nadiya Ivanenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
English Language ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Field Structure ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Dictionary Definitions

The research focuses on the study of the actualization of the concept MARRIAGE in the context of the linguocognitive and linguocultural paradigm. The article analyzes the means of modeling the concept MARRIAGE in the British language picture of the world, its content, structure and cognitive interpretation. The concept-cognitive MARRIAGE is considered in the direction of anthropocentrism with consideration of modern achievements of cognitive linguistics, and also the place of this concept in construction of the British national picture of the world is defined. In the English language tradition, this social phenomenon is expressed through the lexical-semantic field of the concept MARRIAGE. The composition of other basic concepts of linguistic consciousness largely depends on the concept MARRIAGE. The article presents the results of etymological analysis. It plays a big role in determining the typology of culture and the need for this analysis helps to establish the source of origin of the conceptualizer. The analysis of dictionary definitions made it possible to investigate all the meanings of lexical units of the outlined nominative field. This allowed us to understand the nature and types of semantic structure of words that belong to different semantic groups and semasiological subclasses, as well as to look at the epidemiological relations of the key. In order to describe the complex structure of the organization of a multi-valued keyword, the notion of lexical-semantic variant is used. Basic characteristics of the concept MARRIAGE are possible to be found in the dictionary definitions and the complex structure of the concept is defined as a field structure, that is: denotative central content with semantic nucleus, peripherality and connotative surrounding.

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