The phenomenon of peripheral overlap in semantic networks: Russian prefixes PRI- and POD-

Makarova, Anastasia

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“…Nevertheless, we expect an overall alignment between the two approaches. In line with Makarova's (2014Makarova's ( , 2016 findings, we hypothesize that our participants would mostly use the corpus-dominant or expected forms, as we termed them. Replicating Makarova's (2014) analysis, we compared two groups of responses: expected responses and other responses employing non-dominant suffixes, hypothesizing that the share of expected responses would exceed the share of other responses.…”

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“…The noun stimuli were contextualized in sentences, which were mostly taken from the corpus, mimicking the approach of Makarova (2014). The sentences were sometimes adapted slightly, and in rare cases a sentence was made up, when the corpus did not supply us with an appropriate sentence for our task.…”

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“…Our primary motivation was to undertake a conceptual replication of Makarova's (2014) work on attenuatives to test the applicability of a similar approach to another Slavic language and to a different morphological phenomenon. Another general aim was to compare two widely used methods in linguistics: corpus studies and experimental studies.…”

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“…The term Aktionsart refers to a subtype of aspect which modifies verbal meaning by adding quantitative or qualitative characteristics (Makarova, 2016). As Makarova (2016) pointed out, in Russian different affixes can be attached to verbs to express lower intensity (attenuative Aktionsart) (see Makarova, 2014) or a single, instantaneous action (semelfactive Aktionsart) (see Makarova, 2009). However, in many cases, the attenuative, as well as the semelfactive form of a particular verb can be constructed through two different affixes, which is supported by corpus data, e.g., the verb base morozit' 'to freeze' is attested with both pri-and pod-resulting in the attenuative primorozit', or podmorozit', meaning 'to freeze slightly' (Makarova, 2014).…”

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“…As Makarova (2016) pointed out, in Russian different affixes can be attached to verbs to express lower intensity (attenuative Aktionsart) (see Makarova, 2014) or a single, instantaneous action (semelfactive Aktionsart) (see Makarova, 2009). However, in many cases, the attenuative, as well as the semelfactive form of a particular verb can be constructed through two different affixes, which is supported by corpus data, e.g., the verb base morozit' 'to freeze' is attested with both pri-and pod-resulting in the attenuative primorozit', or podmorozit', meaning 'to freeze slightly' (Makarova, 2014). The presence of such variation might indicate that the two affixes or verb forms have a competing status in the native speakers' mental representations.…”

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Competing Distributions of Nominal Diminutive Suffixes in Slovenian: Do Native Speakers’ Preferences Reflect Corpus Data?

Pažon,

Bregar,

Lukman

2024

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The purpose of our experiment was to study the relationship between corpus data and native speakers’ preferences regarding word form variation. Specifically, we investigated how well corpus frequency distributions of masculine nominal diminutive suffixes would be reflected in the preferences of native speakers of Slovenian when choosing suffixes to form diminutives. Based on similar research conducted by Makarova (2014), we expected native speakers’ preferences to be in line with corpus distributions. Our stimuli were 33 masculine noun bases, and the diminutive suffixes observed were grouped into four categories -(č)ek, -ič, -iček, and -(e)c. We consulted Gigafida 2.0, the largest corpus of written Slovenian, to obtain frequencies of attestations for each of our target nouns with each of the diminutive suffixes. The most attested diminutive suffix category for each noun was dubbed its expected suffix. With an offline experiment we collected responses from 70 native speakers of Slovenian, who were tasked with transforming nouns in their base form into diminutives within sentence contexts. Our goal was to test whether native speakers would assign the expected suffix to the noun bases more often than some alternative suffix. The results indicated the number of expected responses exceeded the number of non-expected responses. The difference, however, was subtle, and closer examination of individual noun bases revealed a considerable variability in the shares of expected responses. Further analyses investigated potential predictors of suffix choices, including animacy, length, and expected suffix. Linear regression analyses showed the expected suffix category significantly predicted the proportion of expected responses. Notably, the suffixes -(č)ek and -(e)c emerged as significant predictors of the share of expected responses. The reasons for this variation, including the influence of the corpus characteristics, are discussed, and potential avenues for future research are suggested.

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Section: Main Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 99%