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Свободните словесни асоциации и тяхната (не)достатъчност при изследването на менталния лексикон
Free verbal associations and their (in)sufficiency in the study of the mental lexicon

Author(s): Velka Popova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Lexis, Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive linguistics, Descriptive linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: free verbal associations; ontogenesis; dictionary; Bulgarian language

Summary/Abstract: The present paper makes an attempt to analyze cognitively certain types of free verbal associations. It further dwells on the issue of their IN / EFFiciency viewed as an empirical basis in the vocabulary research in Bulgarian language ontogenesis domain. The paper particularly focuses on 9 associative articles taken from the Associative dictionary of 100 Bulgarian children at the age of 5-6 [Popova 2000] and from BULGARIAN NORMS IN VERBAL ASSOCIATIONS (BNVA) [Gerganov 1987].

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