Semantic transparency effects in German compounds: A large dataset and multiple-task investigation

Günther, Fritz; Marelli, Marco; Bölte, Jens

doi:10.3758/s13428-019-01311-4

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“…These findings are also in line with theoretical accounts of compound words such as the dual‐route (Pollatsek, Hyönä, & Bertram, 2000 ), multiple‐route (Kuperman, Schreuder, Bertram, & Baayen, 2009 ) and CAOSS (Composition as Abstract Operation in Semantic Space) ( Günther & Marelli, 2019 , Günther, Marelli, & Bölte, 2020 ; Marelli, Gagne, & Spalding, 2017 ) models. The first two models posit that compound words are processed via both a compositional route, in which each constituent is identified separately and then combined to form the compound, and a direct lookup route that accesses a unified lexical entry for the whole compound.…”

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Contrasting off‐line segmentation decisions with on‐line word segmentation during reading

Song

Chang

et al. 2021

British J of Psychology

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In two experiments, we investigated the correspondences between off‐line word segmentation and on‐line segmentation processing during Chinese reading. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to read sentences which contained critical four‐character strings, and then, they were required to segment the same sentences into words in a later off‐line word segmentation task. For each item, participants were split into 1‐word segmenters (who segmented four‐character strings as a single word) and 2‐word segmenters (who segmented four‐character strings as 2 two‐character words). Thus, we split participants into two groups (1‐word segmenters and 2‐word segmenters) according to their off‐line segmentation bias. The data analysis showed no reliable group effect on all the measures. In order to avoid the heterogeneity of participants and stimuli in Experiment 1, two groups of participants (1‐word segmenters and 2‐word segmenters) and three types of critical four‐character string (1‐word strings, ambiguous strings, and 2‐word strings) were identified in a norming study in Experiment 2. Participants were required to read sentences containing these critical strings. There was no reliable group effect in Experiment 2, as was the case in Experiment 1. However, in Experiment 2, participants spent less time and made fewer fixations on 1‐word strings compared to ambiguous and 2‐word strings. These results indicate that the off‐line word segmentation preferences do not necessarily reflect on‐line word segmentation processing during Chinese reading and that Chinese readers exhibit flexibility such that word, or multiple constituent, segmentation commitments are made on‐line.

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Contrasting off‐line segmentation decisions with on‐line word segmentation during reading

Song

Chang

et al. 2021

British J of Psychology

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“…In particular, the research focuses on the co-occurrence strength of each constituent word of the collocation and the bilingual translational relationship, i.e., semantic transparency and translational congruency. Semantic transparency is the degree to which the meaning of a collocation can be inferred from its parts, while translational congruency refers to the fact that the collocation meaning can be translated or inferred with the aid of L1 (e.g., Günther et al, 2020 ; Song and Fei, 2022 ).…”

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The lexical processing of Japanese collocations by Chinese Japanese-as-a-Foreign-Language learners: An experimental study by manipulating the presentation modality, semantic transparency, and translational congruency

2023

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IntroductionResearch on collocations has become an essential issue in L2 acquisition and cognitive psychology. Previous studies have mainly focused on phonographic languages such as English, Swedish, and German, and primarily discussed the effect of semantic transparency and translational congruency. However, these studies have lacked (1) an analysis of the interactions between presentation modalities (visual vs. auditory) and the semantic transparency and translational congruency, and (2) a discussion of an ideographic language, such as Chinese and Japanese.MethodsWe conducted an experiment with 36 Chinese Japanese-as-a-Foreign-Language learners to examine the processing of Japanese collocations. In the experiment, we manipulated the presentation modality, semantic transparency, and translational congruency during a lexical judgment task.ResultsData analysis using linear mixed-effects models revealed the following. (1) In both conditions of semantic transparency and translational congruency, the auditory presentation was associated with longer reaction times than the visual presentation. (2) In the visual presentation condition, neither semantic transparency nor translational congruency showed significant effects. (3) In the auditory presentation condition, the reaction time for collocations with high semantic transparency tended to be longer than that for collocations with medium semantic transparency and significantly longer than that for collocations with low semantic transparency. The reaction time for collocations with congruent translation was longer than that for collocations with incongruent translation.DiscussionThese results support the dual-route model of Japanese collocational processing by Chinese Japanese-as-a-Foreign-Language learners. Our findings suggest that whether the analytic or holistic processing dominates is closely related to the learners’ knowledge of Chinese and Japanese Kanji words and strongly influenced by the presentation modality, semantic transparency, and translational congruency.

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“…An anonymous reviewer also suggested further analyses on semantic transparency, since it may play a role in compound-internal anaphora (see Günther et al, 2020). As we discussed, argument structure has been defined to allow for a direct interpretation because of its semantic predictability (Bauer et al, 2013); however we agree that a fine-grained analysis on semantic transparency investigating the constraints on compound-internal anaphora would surely give interesting results, and thus recommend it for future research.…”

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Compound-internal anaphora: evidence from acceptability judgements on Italian argumental compounds

Lami

Weijer²

2022

Morphology

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The particular properties of argumental compounds in Italian pose interesting theoretical challenges, and investigations of possible syntactic operations within this type of complex words have resulted in conflicting conclusions. Regarding compound-internal anaphora, some researchers exclude the possibility that pronouns can refer to the non-head, while others do not. However, these findings have been based on researchers’ intuitions and on occurrences in language corpora, and while intuitions have been shown to give contrasting results, the absence of a grammatical structure in a corpus should not be taken as evidence that the structure is not possible. The present study aims to experimentally determine the possibility of compound-internal pronominal reference based on structural properties of compounds and referential expressions. Judgements were obtained from 140 Italian native speakers who rated the acceptability of sentences containing a pronoun (null or overt) referring to the argument element of an argumental compound. The results indicate that compound-internal anaphoric reference is acceptable in the case of left-headed compounds and, to a somewhat lesser extent, of verb-noun compounds. The argument element of right-headed compounds, however, does not appear to be available to anaphoric reference. Referential expressions also play a role in the degree of acceptability, with left-headed compounds allowing null form anaphora to a greater extent. These results provide new evidence on compound-internal pronominal reference and give important insights into the processing of argumental compounds.

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Semantic transparency effects in German compounds: A large dataset and multiple-task investigation

Cited by 23 publications

References 63 publications

Contrasting off‐line segmentation decisions with on‐line word segmentation during reading

Contrasting off‐line segmentation decisions with on‐line word segmentation during reading

The lexical processing of Japanese collocations by Chinese Japanese-as-a-Foreign-Language learners: An experimental study by manipulating the presentation modality, semantic transparency, and translational congruency

Compound-internal anaphora: evidence from acceptability judgements on Italian argumental compounds

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