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Aspectual constraints in the mental lexicon

Aspectual constraints in the mental lexicon
Aspectual constraints in the mental lexicon
This study addresses the question of whether constraints on aspectual semantics play a role in lexical processing. Two universal cognitive constraints are identified: “states cannot be delimited” and “telic predicates cannot be further telicized.” The study investigates how these are obeyed in the productive process of perfective preverb and stem combination in Bulgarian. An off-line task ascertains that Bulgarian native speakers have a default semantic interpretation for the preverbs under investigation. A visual lexical decision task shows clear legality effects in nonwords composed of existing preverbs and stems, thereby supporting decompositional approaches. It is argued that, after the process of morpheme search, there must be a process of checking for combinatory felicity of the morphemes activated in the lexical access
0090-6905
197-217
Slabakova, Roumyana
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Slabakova, Roumyana
1bda11ce-ce3d-4146-8ae3-4a486b6f5bde

Slabakova, Roumyana (2001) Aspectual constraints in the mental lexicon. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 30 (2), 197-217. (doi:10.1023/A:1010381929686). (PMID:11385826)

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Abstract

This study addresses the question of whether constraints on aspectual semantics play a role in lexical processing. Two universal cognitive constraints are identified: “states cannot be delimited” and “telic predicates cannot be further telicized.” The study investigates how these are obeyed in the productive process of perfective preverb and stem combination in Bulgarian. An off-line task ascertains that Bulgarian native speakers have a default semantic interpretation for the preverbs under investigation. A visual lexical decision task shows clear legality effects in nonwords composed of existing preverbs and stems, thereby supporting decompositional approaches. It is argued that, after the process of morpheme search, there must be a process of checking for combinatory felicity of the morphemes activated in the lexical access

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Published date: March 2001
Organisations: Modern Languages

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Local EPrints ID: 353571
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/353571
ISSN: 0090-6905
PURE UUID: e93099f4-1011-414c-b97d-754c925b9f31
ORCID for Roumyana Slabakova: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5839-460X

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Date deposited: 14 Jun 2013 13:30
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:48

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