Morphology and meaning: An overview

Rainer, Franz; Dressler, Wolfgang U.; Gardani, Francesco; Luschützky, Hans Christian

doi:10.1075/cilt.327.02rai

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“…Central to this issue is the notion of compositionality (cf. Acquaviva 2017;Rainer et al 2014). Is it the case that compounds are fully compositional in that their entire meaning can be derived solely from the constituents?…”

Section: Matters Of Meaning: Semantic Transparency and Compositionalitymentioning

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The representation and processing of compounds words

Libben¹,

Gagné²,

Dressler³

2020

Word Knowledge and Word Usage

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Compound words may be the language structures that are most fundamental to human linguistic ability and most revealing of its dynamics. We review evidence to date on the representation and processing of compound words in the mind and highlight the implications that they have for the broader understanding of language functioning and lexical knowledge. Our examination of the nature of compounds focuses on their deceptive simplicity as well as their dual nature as words and lexical combinations. Compound processing appears to be advantaged when compounds belong to morphologically productive families and when they are both formally and semantically transparent. We also claim that current findings offer converging evidence that compound word processing is characterized by both whole word and constituent activation for compound types.

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Section: Matters Of Meaning: Semantic Transparency and Compositionalitymentioning

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The representation and processing of compounds words

Libben¹,

Gagné²,

Dressler³

2020

Word Knowledge and Word Usage

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“…Perhaps the most compelling reason for this concerns the notion of semantic transparency. This relation between the meaning of a compound word as a whole and the extent to which that whole-word meaning is related to the meanings of a compound's constituents has been the subject of considerable attention in both theoretical approaches to word structure (e.g., Anderson, 1992;Lieber and Stekauer, 2009;Rainer et al, 2014) and psycholinguistic approaches to compound representation and processing (Sandra, 1990;Libben and Weber, 2014;Gagné et al, 2016;Smolka and Libben, 2017;Günther et al, 2020;Günther and Marelli, 2023).…”

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Persian compounds in the mental lexicon

Yousefzadeh,

Libben,

Segalowitz

2024

Front. Commun.

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Compound words exhibit properties of both single words and phrases, raising the question of the extent to which compounds are processed as single units or as word combinations. Most studies have addressed this in Germanic languages (English, German and Dutch) which have the similar compound structure of modifier-head ordering. To see whether this limits our understanding of compound word processing and to examine compound decomposition in another language, we presented Persian stimuli auditorily in a paradigm involving typing out stimuli. We examined the effects of semantic transparency, modifier-head ordering and the potential differences between attached compounds written without spaces and those with a space between the constituents. We report the inter-keystroke-interval times, yielding letter-by-letter production of compound structures produced by 31 native speakers of Persian. Results analyzed in a linear mixed-model regression analysis suggested that, for all compounds, typing speed is slowed at the boundary between the constituents of Persian compound words. These effects, which we interpret to be evidence of morphological decomposition, were present for both semantically transparent and opaque compounds, for both head-initial and head-final compounds, and for both attached and spaced compounds. We observed greater morphological decomposition effects in semantically transparent (versus opaque) compounds. We also observed that the way transparency influences the degree of decomposition is moderated by headedness. Thus, this first report for the written production of compound words confirms previous observations of significant decomposition at morphological boundaries in English compounds, but with variation specific to Persian.

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“…La primera idea no deja de ser controvertida en la teoría morfológica (vid. Rainer, Dressler, Gardani, y Luschützky: 2014), pero, en este momento, no la discutiremos; un prefijo puede crear derivados con diferentes significados y petenecer a distintas familias funcionales desde el punto de vista semántico. Por ejemplo, superpuede emplearse para formar derivados con significados espaciales (superíndice, superlingual) e intensivos (superarrastrero, superbarato).…”

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Estudio exploratorio de la red de prefijos en Español

Rifón¹

2019

HAFH

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El objetivo de este artículo es hacer un estudio exploratorio de la red de los prefijos en español. Para ello, en primer lugar, analizamos y comparamos las clasificaciones hechas por tres fuentes bibliográficas para establecer una clasificación semántica de los prefijos; en segundo lugar, crearemos un grafo no dirigido y ponderado en el que los nodos son los prefijos y las aristas, los significados compartidos. De esta manera, el prefijo A estará relacionado con el B si comparten significados, es decir, si hay significados que pueden crear ambos prefijos. De este grafo y de alguno de sus subgrafos analizaremos las medidas globales centrándonos en su densidad, modularidad y grado de clusterización, estableceremos las comunidades existentes y estudiaremos dos medidas de centralidad, la cercanía y la intermediación.

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Morphology and meaning: An overview

Cited by 17 publications

References 149 publications

The representation and processing of compounds words

The representation and processing of compounds words

Persian compounds in the mental lexicon

Estudio exploratorio de la red de prefijos en Español

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