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in isolation from relations with other semantically related words in the same lexicon. Subsequent decades of research have confirmed that words do tend to exhibit strong semantic associations with words in the same semantic domain. This can be effectively demonstrated when two different words have the same phonology or spelling.
Sep 1, 2019 · of research have confirmed that words do tend to exhibit strong semantic associations with words in the same semantic domain. This can be effectively demonstrated when two different words hav e ...
In other words, word associations give us insight in semantic networks on two levels: on the word level, that is they show us what a semantic network surrounding a specific word may look like based on associations from a group of people; and on the level of the mental lexicon of the individual language user, that is combining word associations to several words from one person can shed light on ...
- Tessa Spätgens, Rob Schoonen
- 2020
Notice that other domains do not have clear pitched words, such as Domain 1, 5, 6 or 8 (see Figure 3, particularly panel (c)). There is also a group of brightness-related word in the same domain: shimmering, glistening, brilliant.
Dec 1, 2020 · Orders of association. Saussure (1916) defines two types of relationships between words: paradigmatic and syntagmatic. Syntagmatic describes a relationship a word has with other words that surround it. Paradigmatic describes a relationship in which a pair of words can be substituted for each other.
- M.A. Kelly, M.A. Kelly, Moojan Ghafurian, Moojan Ghafurian, Robert L. West, David Reitter, David Rei...
- 2020
Sep 17, 2018 · The processes tapped by the widely-used word association (WA) paradigm remain a matter of debate: while some authors consider them as driven by lexical co-occurrences, others emphasize the role of meaning-based connections. To test these contrastive hypotheses, we analyzed responses in a WA task in terms of their normative defining features (those describing the object denoted by the cue word ...
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Aug 10, 2020 · Semantic equivalence can be defined in functional terms: the meaning of a word w 1 in one language (L 1) is aligned with a word w 2 in another language (L 2) if the two words are used in the same ...