They are found to be better than monolingual children in the flexibility of lexical- semantic connection. Such as they show more exemplar association than monolingual children (that is, the associative words be
Conversely, endocentric compounds have a clear head, which is one of the elements of the compound that determines its lexical category. For example, "blackboard" is clearly a type of board, making "board" the head of the compound. 11 In terms of function, exocentric compounds often create ...
regardless of how clearly the possible natural lexical categories might be served up by non-linguistic systems of knowledge, there must also be a powerful learning mechanism whereby the child comes to set up the right number of divisions based on the number of terms in her language and how the...
Tanskanen (2006, p.7) pointed to this difference as researchers agree that there is difference between cohesion and coherence. Cohesion refers to grammatical and lexical elements on the surface of text. Coherence resides in the text, but the outcome of a dialogue between the text and its listen...
The distinction between derivation and affixation becomes clearer when considering their impact on semantics and syntax. Derivation often results in a word that belongs to a completely different semantic field or syntactic category than its root. Meanwhile, affixation, in the case of inflectional morphem...
Both Dominik and Anita are fixated on perceived visual differences between themselves and the others, and between the ‘norm’ and the ‘aberration’. As looking at others is relational, the gendered or ethnicised difference is constructed in relation to other white men and women. In all interv...
Componential analysis defines the meaning of a lexical element in terms of semantic components. That is, the meaning of a word can be dissected into meaning components, called semantic features. (成分分析法用语义成分来定义词汇,也就是说,一个词可以被分成语义特征。) Plus and minus signs are used...
The N400 is associated with neural processing involved in lexical access (i.e., accessing information about word meanings) and semantic integration (Kutas and Federmeier, 2000, Kutas and Hillyard, Acknowledgements This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grant F31DC013700 (A.S.M...
(linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots. Root (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived. Root (music...
(that is, all English words sound different from all French words, even if they are the same word, e.g., "role" or "hotel"), and using those words in their semantic character as words in the lexicon of a language according to the syntactic constraints that govern lexical words' ...