Rebolar e requebrar, algo a mais do que dançar? : um estudo experimental sobre o acesso visual de verbos prefixados e pseudo-prefixados na lingua portuguesa

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2001

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The aim of this dissertation is to experimentally study the lexical access of morphologically complex words, presented visually. The main question relates to how morphologically complex words ? especially prefixed verbs - are represented: are processing units in correspondence to a whole-word representation, or are they in correspondence to morphological constituents (base and affixes)? Firstly, a literature review was conducted, and next a series of experiments was designed. Such an experimental program was partially implemented, and two experiments were run (to the best of our knowledge, none of them has ever been carried out in Portuguese). In the first, it was shown that semantic priming obtains between morphologically simple pairs; this is a common result in the psycholinguistic literature. In the second, semantic priming was employed to study the processing of two classes of morphologically complex verbs: those that are derivationally transparent, and those that are pseudo-prefixed. The latter are apparently the result of prefixation, but in fact form semantically different words (for instance, reserve cannot be put in correspondence with serve). The comparison of the subjects responses on these two conditions, in a lexical decision task, allows one to determine processing differences related to differences in access representation. Thus, morphological information is shown to play a most important role in lexical access

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morfologia processamento de palavras psicolinguistica

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