Hebrew Idioms: The Organization of the Lexical Component

Horvath, Julia; Siloni, Tal

doi:10.1163/187666309x12491131130666

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“…burst at the seam if the unaccusative entry of burst is not listed lexically (note that this idiom cannot have a transitive reading, i.e. * burst something at the seam ) (see Horvath & Siloni, 2009, for discussion of similar facts in Hebrew). Moreover, in Meltzer-Asscher et al (2012) we found activation in bilateral AG and MFG in response to alternating unaccusative compared to unergative verbs.…”

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How the brain processes different dimensions of argument structure complexity: Evidence from fMRI

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Verbs are central to sentence processing, as they encode argument structure (AS) information, i.e., information about the syntax and interpretation of the phrases accompanying them. The behavioral and neural correlates of AS processing have primarily been investigated in sentence-level tasks, requiring both verb processing and verb-argument integration. In the current functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, we investigated AS processing using a lexical decision task requiring only verb processing. We examined three aspects of AS complexity: number of thematic roles, number of thematic options, and mapping (non)canonicity (unaccusative vs. unergative and transitive verbs). Increased number of thematic roles elicited greater activation in the left posterior perisylvian regions claimed to support access to stored AS representations. However, the number of thematic options had no neural effects. Further, unaccusative verbs elicited longer response times and increased activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus, reflecting the processing cost of unaccusative verbs and, more generally, supporting the role of the IFG in noncanonical argument mapping.

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“…Il est grand temps que des études expérimentales voient le jour afin de savoir comment le sens pragmatique est attaché à leurs entrées lexicales. On souhaiterait mentionner ici l'étude de Siloni, Horvath, Klunover & Wexler (2013) qui porte sur les idiomes en hébreu (voir aussi Horvath & Siloni 2009). Le but de cette étude est de montrer le lien entre l'organisation du lexique mental et la façon dont les expressions idiomatiques sont stockées.…”

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“…An idiom in the verbal passive must have a transitive version. Horvath & Siloni (2009) and Fadlon et al (2016) confirm empirically the lack of both decomposable and nondecompsable phrasal idioms unique to the verbal passive, and propose an account for this robust generalization in terms of idiom storage, as follows.…”

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“…Empirical evidence supporting uniform storage of idioms based on L(exical)-selection by their head (see Everaert 2010) for both types of idioms (and against storage as independent phrasal entries) is provided by Horvath & Siloni (2009) and Fadlon, Horvath, Siloni & Wexler (to appear), who report surveys examining the cross-diathesis distribution of verb phrase idioms in Hebrew and English, respectively, as explained below. Dubinsky & Simango (1996), Marantz (1997), and Ruwet (1991) report that in English, French & Chichewa there do not seem to be any idioms specific to the verbal (eventive) passive, while there are idioms specific to the adjectival (stative) passive.…”

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The acquisition of Hebrew idioms: Stages, internal composition, and implications for storage

Fadlon

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Siloni

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Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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The study investigates the potential effects of the internal structure of idioms on their acquisition. It tested school-children (1 st to 3 rd graders) acquiring Hebrew. Comprehension and production experiments examined the effect of two structural factors on the acquisition of verb phrase idioms: (i) whether the idiom was a full lexically fixed constituent or involved an open slot, namely a free, lexically unspecified obligatory constituent; (ii) whether or not the idiom was decomposable. While neither (i) nor (ii) influenced idiom comprehension in these age groups, idiom production was affected by both. In the production experiment, performance with nondecomposable idioms was significantly better than performance with decomposable idioms across age groups. Further, an analysis by age group showed significant interactions of factors (i) and (ii) for second and third graders. We propose that the main effect of (non)decomposability is due to two distinct techniques (available in grammar) that children utilize for the storage of idioms, and to children's facility with retrieval of units vs. retrieval by composition. Children, unlike adults, store nondecomposable phrasal idioms as independent entries, rather than as subentries of their lexical head. The reason for this misanalysis, we propose, is that children have difficulty reconciling the constituent structure of nondecomposable idioms with their lack of semantic composition. The effect of an open slot differs in accordance with the storage technique: It facilitates retrieval of units because there are fewer lexically fixed constituents to recover, but makes retrieval of subentries harder due to the nonuniform lexical representation of the idiom.

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Hebrew Idioms: The Organization of the Lexical Component

Cited by 19 publications

References 21 publications

How the brain processes different dimensions of argument structure complexity: Evidence from fMRI

How the brain processes different dimensions of argument structure complexity: Evidence from fMRI

Figement syntaxique, sémantique et pragmatique

The acquisition of Hebrew idioms: Stages, internal composition, and implications for storage

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