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The Effect of Semantic Transparency and Lexicality on the Decomposition Processes of Compound Nouns

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2005, v.17 no.4, pp.441-459

(2005). The Effect of Semantic Transparency and Lexicality on the Decomposition Processes of Compound Nouns. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 17(4), 441-459.
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Abstract

This study is planned to investigate whether the decomposition processes between modifiers and heads are necessary to parse compound nouns. In Experiment 1, the time courses of priming effects were analyzed to examine the patterns of decomposition processes according to compound nouns' semantic transparency . The fact that priming effects of compound nouns were found irrespective of SOA and semantic transparency implied that decomposition processes aren't necessary to parse compound nouns. But, priming effects of modifiers and heads observed in T-T and T-O conditions showed the possibility of decomposition processes. In Experiment 2, The patterns of decomposition processes were examined by analyzing priming effects of salient and default properties observed in existing and new compound nouns. In existing compound nouns, salient properties as well as default properties were activated in early processing stage, but the activation of default properties were suppressed in later processing stage. In case of new compound nouns, the activation of salient properties were found in later processing stage and the decomposition processes precedes the comprehension of compound nouns. In conclusion, results of this study suggests that the decomposition process is not always required to comprehend compound nouns and that more comprehensive models are needed to cover theses results.

keywords
compound noun, lexical decision task, semantic transparency, decomposition process, lexicality, compound noun, lexical decision task, semantic transparency, decomposition process, lexicality, 복합명사, 의미 투명도, 분리처리, 어휘성, 수식어, 핵심어

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