Word class influence on word association test results1
The aim of this article is to investigate the influence of word class on word association test results in both the L1 and L2. The data clearly suggest that word class type affects test results: nouns elicit a higher proportion of paradigmatic responses than verbs and adjectives. The influence of wor...
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Veröffentlicht in: | International journal of applied linguistics 2006-11, Vol.16 (3), p.389-408 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The aim of this article is to investigate the influence of word class on word association test results in both the L1 and L2. The data clearly suggest that word class type affects test results: nouns elicit a higher proportion of paradigmatic responses than verbs and adjectives. The influence of word class on test results is discussed in terms of the acquisition and semantic organisation of nouns, verbs and adjectives. However, results also show a surprising majority of syntagmatic responses in the L1 test. These results lead to a critical discussion of the concept of the syntagmatic–paradigmatic shift, which in the light of the test results in this study is seriously challenged. Theoretical and pedagogical implications for lexical network structure are discussed.
Målet med denne artikel er at undersøge ordklassers betydning for testresultater i ordassociationstests på L1 og L2. Data viser tydeligt, at ordklasse i høj grad påvirker testresultaterne: substantiver resulterer i en større andel paradigmatiske respons end verber og adjektiver. Ordklassernes påvirkning af testresultater diskuteres i forhold til ordtilegnelse, samt måden substantiver, verber og adjektiver er organiseret semantisk i det mentale leksikon. Resultaterne viser en uventet overvægt af syntagmatiske respons i L1‐testen. Dette leder til en kritisk diskussion af begrebet det syntagmatisk–paradigmatiske skift, som bliver afgørende udfordret af testresultaterne i denne undersøgelse. Teoretiske og pædagogiske konsekvenser af det leksikalske netværks struktur diskuteres. |
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ISSN: | 0802-6106 1473-4192 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1473-4192.2006.00124.x |