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The influence of age of acquisition, root frequency and context availbility in processing nouns and verbs
No full textIn the Italian language there is a higher number of inflectional suffixes in verbs than in nouns, and this might imply that verbs are more likely to undergo a morphological analysis in terms of root and suffix as compared to nouns (Traficante & Burani, unpublished observations). Moreover, verbs tend to be more abstract than nouns, and this aspect might make verb processing more difficult. Finally, the developmental gap in the production of nouns and verbs suggests that age of acquisition might affect noun and verbs differently. Nouns and verbs were presented in a lexical decision and in a naming task. The morphological variable root frequency in addition to word frequency, length and word age of acquisition, and the semantic variables concreteness and context availability (Schwanenflugel, Harnishfeger, & Stowe, 1988) were used as predictors in multiple-regression analyses in which lexical decision and naming latencies were the dependent variables. The results showed that age of acquisition, context availability, and root frequency are all important in predicting both lexical decision and naming latencies for nouns and verbs, but age of acquisition and root frequency are better predictors of the differences in processing Italian nouns and verbs
Lettura morfo-lessicale non semantica
No full textSul riconoscimento dei costituenti morfologici in compiti di lettur
The process of stress assignment in reading aloud: Critical issues from studies on Italian
No full textIn polysyllabic languages the assignment of stress is crucial for understanding the reading process. Here we review empirical evidence, drawn mainly from studies on Italian, and discuss critical issues in understanding reading. We first discuss the lexical and sublexical mechanisms responsible for stress assignment and propose that the former is based on item-specific knowledge and the latter on the statistical-distributional knowledge that readers have acquired about their language. Then we examine the idea that stress and phonemes pertain to two dimensions of the word, which can be placed at two different representational levels. Finally, we analyze the effects of stress assignment on word articulation, a promising field for future investigation. These issues are addressed by reviewing the studies conducted in adult and young readers to outline the developmental trajectory of stress assignment and discuss how it operates in the reading system
Morpho-Lexical Access and Naming: The Semantic Interpretability of New Root-Suffix Combinations
No full textIl contributo è dedicato allo studio dei fattori che condizionano l'accesso morfemico, con particolare riferimento ai suffissi derivazionali dell'italian
Violazioni di restrizioni sulla suffissazione e interpretabilità semantica
No full textIl contributo si inserisce nell'ambito degli studi sui processi di suffissazione in italiano, con attenzione alle modalità di accesso al lessico. Più in particolare in questo lavoro vengono analizzate le restrizioni sintattico-semantiche sulle RFP e l'Ipotesi della Base Unica. I risultati dell’esperimento qui presentato, ideato e condotto presso il CNR di Roma (Reparto Linguaggio e processi cognitivi), confermano la validità della nozione di restrizione e avvalorano l’ipotesi della separazione della IBU dalle restrizioni sintattico-semantiche sui tratti inerenti delle basi
Morpho-Lexical Access and Naming: The Semantic Interpretability of New Root-Suffix Combinations
No full textIl contributo è dedicato allo studio dei fattori che condizionano l'accesso morfemico, con particolare riferimento ai suffissi derivazionali dell'italian
Morpho-Lexical Access and Naming: The Semantic Interpretability of New Root-Suffix Combinations
No full textSulle modalità di accesso al lessico e sulla interpretabilità semantica dei suffissi derivazionali dell'italian
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