Processing compound verbs in persian : a psycholinguistic approach to complex predicates /
<Cite>Processing Compound Verbs in Persian</cite> is the first monograph investigating how Persian compound verbs are processed in the mental lexicon, through which it can be inferred how they are stored, organized, and accessed. The study examines Persian compound verbs in light of psyc...
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| Language: | English Persian |
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[Leiden, Netherlands] :
Leiden University Press,
2014
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| Series: | Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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Table of Contents:
- List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1. The Mental Lexicon; 1.2. Goals of the Present Study; 1.3. Book Outline; Chapter 2. Complex and Compound Word Processing; 2.1. Hypotheses of Complex and Compound Word Processing; 2.2. Morphologically Complex Noun Processing; 2.2.1. The Effect of SOA on Polymorphemic Word Processing; 2.2.2. Compound Noun Processing; 2.3. Processing Morphologically Complex Verbs; 2.4. Processing of Complex and Compound Words by Aphasic Patients.
- 2.4.1. The Distinction between Noun and Verb Processing in Aphasic Patients2.4.2. Noun/Verb Prominence in Aphasic Patients; 2.4.3. Aphasic Studies on Persian; 2.5. The Impact of Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Factors on the Processing of Morphologically Complex Words; 2.5.1. Influence of Linearity on the Priming Effect; 2.5.2. Influence of Stimulus Onset Asynchrony on the Priming Effect; 2.5.3. Influence of Frequency on the Priming Effect; Chapter 3. Experimental Studies; 3.1. Experiment 1; 3.1.1. Lexical Decision Task; 3.1.2. Masked Priming; 3.1.3. Relatedness Rating and Frequency Studies.
- 3.1.4. Method3.1.5. Results; 3.2. Experiment 2; 3.2.1. Relatedness Rating Study; 3.2.2. Frequency Rating Study; 3.2.3. Experiment 2a. Priming of Non-Head/Word-Initial Position; 3.2.4. Experiment 2b. Priming of Head/Word-Final Position; 3.3. General Conclusion; Chapter 4. Compound Verbs in Persian; 4.1. Syntactic/Semantic Account of Compound Verbs in Persian; 4.1.1. Folli, Harley and Karimi: Determinants of Event Types (2005); 4.1.2. Goldberg: The Host and the Light Verb (2004); 4.2. An Overview of the Literature on N-V Compound Verb Constituents; 4.2.1. Noun Incorporation.
- 4.2.2. Dressler: Productivity in Compound Words (2006)Chapter 5. General Discussion and Conclusion; 5.1. Contribution of the Study to the Psycholinguistics Field; 5.2. Processing of Idiomatic Expressions; 5.3. Contribution of the Study to the Persian Complex Predicate Field; 5.4. Conclusion; Appendix A. Stimuli for Experiment 1; Appendix B. Stimuli for Experiment 2; Appendix C. Sample Results of minF' Test; Experiment 2; Experiment 2b; Notes; References.
