Coining Compounds and Derivations - A Crosslinguistic Elicitation Study of Word-Formation Abilities of Preschool Children and Adults in Polish and English

Haman, Ewa; Zevenbergen, Andrea A.; Andrus, Melissa; Chmielewska, Marta

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“…Thus, in German and Dutch, two languages with a similarly rich derivational system, readers might generally use more decomposition-based strategies for derivations, so that constituent priming leads to an overall morphological priming effect regardless of transparency. In contrast, English has a relatively poor derivational system (Dressler, 2005;Duncan et al, 2009;Haman et al, 2009), so that holistic processing might be favoured more often. Thus, constituent priming may not be enough to always induce decomposition: it does so only for transparent derivations (but see Bozic et al, 2007).…”

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“…German, compared with English, has a richer morphological system, i.e. word-formation processes such as derivation are more productive in German (Dressler, 2005;Duncan, Casalis, & Colé, 2009;Haman, Zevenbergen, Andrus, & Chmielewska, 2009;Hickmann, Hendriks, Roland, & Liang, 1996). The morphological richness of German may enhance the use of decomposition as a default strategy, leading to decomposition even of opaque derivations.…”

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Processing derived verbs: the role of motor-relatedness and type of morphological priming

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Lemhöfer

Schriefers

2019

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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There is no consensus on whether derived words are decomposed or processed holistically, and on which factors this depends. Using overt visual priming with lexical decision involving Dutch derived particle verbs, we manipulated three factors: semantic transparency of the derived words, motorrelatedness of the simple verb constituent, and type of morphological priming. Experiments 1 and 2 (using simple verbs primed by their derivations or vice versa) showed overall facilitatory morphological priming effects, independent of transparency or motor-relatedness. In Experiment 3 (using priming between the derivation and a word semantically related to its stem), only transparent motor-related derivations were primed. The combined results suggest that the processing of derivations is influenced by priming type: constituent priming (Exp. 1 & 2) may induce a bias towards a decompositional processing strategy, possibly by directing attention to the stimuli's morphological structure. The role of motor-relatedness is discussed in the context of embodied cognition theory.

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Processing derived verbs: the role of motor-relatedness and type of morphological priming

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Lemhöfer

Schriefers

2019

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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“…Although data for this study were collected as part of a broader investigation of parent-child co-constructed narratives and child language development (see Haman, Zevenbergen, Andrus, & Chmielewska, 2009;Zevenbergen et al, 2012;Zevenbergen, Holmes, Haman, Whiteford, & Thielges, 2016), 1 the foregoing procedures were the first thing that the families experienced when meeting with the researchers. To help the family become accustomed to the audio equipment used in the study, the mother and child were first asked to "just talk as [they] would at home" for approximately 5 min.…”

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“…The data for this study were collected as part of a broader cross-cultural study of parent-child co-constructed narratives and child language development Haman et al (2009). describes the results of data that were collected regarding American and Polish preschoolers' coining of new words using derivation and compounding.…”

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“Do You Remember Going to the Beach?”: References to Internal States in Polish and American Mother-Preschooler Shared Narratives

Zevenbergen

Haman

Zevenbergen³

2018

Psychology of Language and Communication

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The present study examined references to cognitive states and emotions in narratives produced by mothers and preschoolers (aged 3 or 5 years) in Polish and American families. Participants were 32 mother-child dyads from Poland and 32 mother-child dyads from the United States. The two samples were matched with regard to child age, child gender, maternal age, and maternal education. The mother-child dyads were asked to tell three personal narratives. The co-constructed narratives were coded for mother and child references to cognitive states and emotions. Polish mothers were found to include significantly more references to cognitive states in their narratives than American mothers. Results also revealed significant correlations between mothers’ and children’s references to cognitive states across both samples. Related to child development, 5-year-olds produced significantly more tokens in the narratives than 3-year-olds. This study shows that mothers’ use of cognitive state terms in shared narratives with their young children differs across two Western cultural contexts. The results of this study are discussed with regard to two themes in developmental psycholinguistics: relations between maternal and child language use, and cross-cultural variation.

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“…Psychophonology and prosody were studied in production experiments of Bulgarian acoustic cues of narrow and wide focus (Andreeva, Koleman, and Barry 2014), Slovenian irregular verbs (Petrič and Stemberger, 2014), and Serbian pitch accents (Zsiga and Zec 2013). Patterns of compound-word production in Polish were examined by Haman and colleagues (Haman et al 2009), while two sentence production studies focused on the role of animacy in relative clauses in Serbian (Gennari, Mirković, and MacDonald 2012) and the cost of producing noncanonical word orders in Russian (Myachykov et al 2013), respectively.…”

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Slavic Psycholinguistics in the 21st Century

Sekerina¹

2017

Journal of Slavic Linguistics

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This article provides an update on research in Slavic psycholinguistics since 2000 following my first review (Sekerina 2006), published as a position paper for the workshop The Future of Slavic Linguistics in America (SLING2K). The focus remains on formal experimental psycholinguistics understood in the narrow sense, i.e., experimental studies conducted with monolingual healthy adults. I review five dimensions characteristic of Slavic psycholinguistics-populations, methods, domains, theoretical approaches, and specific languages-and summarize the experimental data from Slavic languages published in general non-Slavic psycholinguistic journals and proceedings from the leading two conferences on Slavic linguistics, FASL and FDSL, since 2000. I argue that the current research trends in Slavic psycholinguistics are (1) a shift from adult monolingual participants to special population groups, such as children, people with aphasia, and bilingual learners, (2) a continuing move in the direction of cognitive neuroscience, with more emphasis on online experimental techniques, such as eye-tracking and neuroimaging, and (3) a focus on Slavic-specific phenomena that contribute to the ongoing debates in general psycholinguistics. The current infrastructural trends are (1) development of psycholinguistic databases and resources for Slavic languages and (2) a rise of psycholinguistic research conducted in Eastern European countries and disseminated in Slavic languages. * I wish to thank two anonymous reviewers and Catherine Rudin for their helpful comments and especially suggestions regarding additional sources. All the mistakes are, of course, mine.

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Coining Compounds and Derivations - A Crosslinguistic Elicitation Study of Word-Formation Abilities of Preschool Children and Adults in Polish and English

Cited by 4 publications

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Processing derived verbs: the role of motor-relatedness and type of morphological priming

Processing derived verbs: the role of motor-relatedness and type of morphological priming

“Do You Remember Going to the Beach?”: References to Internal States in Polish and American Mother-Preschooler Shared Narratives

Slavic Psycholinguistics in the 21st Century

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