Little attention has been paid to the meaning predictability of converted naming units. Meaning predictability of novel contextfree compounds oxford. It presents a brandnew model of the meaningprediction of novel, contextfree naming units, relating the wordformation and wordinterpretation processes. A tekauer presents and tests a general theory of meaning prediction which is intended to apply to a wide range of word formation types such as conversion and compounding. Meaning predictability in word formation john benjamins. It presents a brandnew model of the meaning prediction of novel, contextfree naming units, relating the word formation and word interpretation processes.
Predictability of distributional semantics in derivational word. Find 234 synonyms for predictability and other similar words that you can use instead based on 6 separate contexts from our thesaurus. Predictability meaning in the cambridge english dictionary. Chapter 7 is devoted to two theoretical issues, the role of phonology in word formation, and the nature of word formation rules. Word formation pdf worksheets english vocabulary and. Articles worksheets are in pdf format and consist of a worksheet and answer sheet to check your results. Wordformation in english this book is an introduction to the study of wordformation, that is, the ways in whichnewwordsarebuiltonthebasesofotherwordse. This chapter deals with the predictability of meanings of novel contextfree compounds. Structure plays a limited role in meaning predictability indicating that analyses of wordformation processes from referent to word form may be more informative. Stekauers approach will certainly stimulate new research in the field. Their performance on semicompositional word formation process of morphological. Predictability definition in the cambridge english. Compositional distributional semantic models cdsms have successfully been applied to the task of predicting the meaning of a range of linguistic constructions.
It interrelates the wordformation and wordinterpretation models in order. Pdf the scope of wordformation research researchgate. Levels of analysis and description in wordformation research. More recent developments of lexical phonology and morphology. Evidence from word formation with french entre and dutch tussenkristel van goethem. This article discusses some aspects of a theory of. Stekauers book is a highly interesting and original contribution to questions dealing with meaning predictability and word formation. Can such a definition be extended so as to encompass aspects of the structure of word formation. Predictability in inflection and word formation cnrs. This book aims to contribute to a growing interest amongst psycholinguists and morphologists in the mechanisms of meaning predictability. It is demonstrated that various wordformation strategies reflecting a language users preference for semantic transparency or formal economy significantly affect the process of complex word.
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