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Testing the Stem Dominance Hypothesis: Meaning Analysis of Inflected Words and Prepositional Phrases
We tested the hypothesis that lexical-semantic access of inflected words is governed by the word stem. Object drawings overlaid with a dot/arrow marking position/movement were matched with corresponding linguistic expressions like “from the house”. To test whether the stem dominates lexical-semantic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968051/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24676218 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093136 |
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author | Lehtonen, Minna Harrer, Gabor Wande, Erling Laine, Matti |
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description | We tested the hypothesis that lexical-semantic access of inflected words is governed by the word stem. Object drawings overlaid with a dot/arrow marking position/movement were matched with corresponding linguistic expressions like “from the house”. To test whether the stem dominates lexical-semantic access irrespective of its position, we used Swedish prepositional phrases (locative information via preposition immediately preceding the stem) or Finnish case-inflected words (locative information via suffix immediately following the stem). Both in monolingual Swedish and in bilingual Finnish-Swedish speakers, correct stems with incorrect prepositions/case-endings were hardest to reject. This finding supports the view that the stem is indeed the dominant unit in meaning access of inflected words. |
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spelling | pubmed-39680512014-04-01 Testing the Stem Dominance Hypothesis: Meaning Analysis of Inflected Words and Prepositional Phrases Lehtonen, Minna Harrer, Gabor Wande, Erling Laine, Matti PLoS One Research Article We tested the hypothesis that lexical-semantic access of inflected words is governed by the word stem. Object drawings overlaid with a dot/arrow marking position/movement were matched with corresponding linguistic expressions like “from the house”. To test whether the stem dominates lexical-semantic access irrespective of its position, we used Swedish prepositional phrases (locative information via preposition immediately preceding the stem) or Finnish case-inflected words (locative information via suffix immediately following the stem). Both in monolingual Swedish and in bilingual Finnish-Swedish speakers, correct stems with incorrect prepositions/case-endings were hardest to reject. This finding supports the view that the stem is indeed the dominant unit in meaning access of inflected words. Public Library of Science 2014-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3968051/ /pubmed/24676218 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093136 Text en © 2014 Lehtonen et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lehtonen, Minna Harrer, Gabor Wande, Erling Laine, Matti Testing the Stem Dominance Hypothesis: Meaning Analysis of Inflected Words and Prepositional Phrases |
title | Testing the Stem Dominance Hypothesis: Meaning Analysis of Inflected Words and Prepositional Phrases |
title_full | Testing the Stem Dominance Hypothesis: Meaning Analysis of Inflected Words and Prepositional Phrases |
title_fullStr | Testing the Stem Dominance Hypothesis: Meaning Analysis of Inflected Words and Prepositional Phrases |
title_full_unstemmed | Testing the Stem Dominance Hypothesis: Meaning Analysis of Inflected Words and Prepositional Phrases |
title_short | Testing the Stem Dominance Hypothesis: Meaning Analysis of Inflected Words and Prepositional Phrases |
title_sort | testing the stem dominance hypothesis: meaning analysis of inflected words and prepositional phrases |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968051/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24676218 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093136 |
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