DO MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES AFFECT THE COGNITIVE PROCESSING OF DEVERBAL NOMINALS IN SERBIAN?
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https://doi.org/10.19090/pp.2019.2.139-156Keywords:
a–morphous morphology, derived nouns, deverbal nominalization, distributed morphology, morpho–lexical processingAbstract
The aim of this study was to examine whether different morphological characteristics of Serbian deverbal nominals affect their lexical processing. According to morphological differences, there are three subtypes of the process and result deverbal nominals in Serbian: (i) result nominals end with the zero suffix, while process nominals end with the deverbal suffix –nje (e.g., žubor/žuborenje [eng. burble]); (ii) result nominals differ from process nominals in the presence of the –va infix (e.g., rešenje/rešavanje [eng. solution]); (iii) process nominals end with the deverbal suffix –nje, while result nominals end with other derivational suffixes (e.g., rotiranje/rotacija [eng. rotation]). The final results of three self–paced reading experiments suggest that different morphological features do not affect the processing of deverbal nominals, which strongly supports a–morphous approach to the morpho– lexical processing, as well as the distributed morphology perspective in the field of theoretical linguistics.
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Gatarić, I., Srdanović, S., Nenadić, F., & Šarić, A. (2019, March). The cognitive pro- cessing od process and result deverbal nominals in English and Serbian. Paper presented at the 25th Empirical Studies in Psychology, Belgrade, Serbia.
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Manouilidou, C. (2006). On the processing of thematic features in deverbal nomi- nals (Upublished doctoral dissertation). Canada: Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa.
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Milin, P., Divjak, D., Dimitrijević, S., & Baayen, H. (2016). Towards cognitively plau- sible data science in language research. Cognitive Linguistics, 27(4), 507–526. doi:10.1515/cog–2016–0055
Paul, I. (2014). Cross–linguistic Investigations of Nominalization Patterns. Amster- dam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Plag, I., & Winter Balling, L. (in press). Derivational morphology: An integrative perspective on some fundamental issues. In V. Pirelli, I. Plag, & W. Dressler (Eds.), Word knowledge and word usage: A cross–disciplinary guide to the mental lexicon. Berlin: De Gruyter.
R Core Team (2017). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. Vienna: R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Retrieved from: http:// www.R–project.org/
Radman, S. (2015). Cognitive processing of result and process nominals in English and Serbian (Unpublished master thesis). Serbia: Faculty of Philosophy, Uni- versity of Novi Sad.
Rayner, K. (1998). Eye Movements in Reading and Information Processing: 20 Years of Research. Psychological Bulletin, 124(3), 372–422. doi:10.1037//0033– 2909.124.3.372
Smirnova, A. (2015). Understanding Deverbal Nominals: World Knowledge or Lexical Semantics? CogSci, 2224–2229.
Srdanović, S., Gatarić, I., & Šarić, A. (2018, February). Theoretical and empirical vi- dimus of the simple event nominals (non) existence in Serbian. Paper presented at the 9th Linguistic Evidence: Experimental Data Drives Linguistic Theory, Tübingen, Germany.
Taft, M. (2004). Morphological decomposition and the reverse base frequen- cy effect. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57A, 745–765. doi:10.1080/02724980343000477
Taft, M., & Forster, K. I. (1975). Lexical storage and retrieval of prefixed words. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 14, 638–647. doi:10.1016/ s0022–5371(75)80051–x
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Zlatić, L. (1997). The structure of the Serbian noun phrase (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). United States: University of Texas at Austin.
