DA LI MORFOLOŠKE ODLIKE UTIČU NA KOGNITIVNU OBRADU DEVERBALNIH IMENICA U SRPSKOM JEZIKU? Cover Image

DO MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES AFFECT THE COGNITIVE PROCESSING OF DEVERBAL NOMINALS IN SERBIAN?
DA LI MORFOLOŠKE ODLIKE UTIČU NA KOGNITIVNU OBRADU DEVERBALNIH IMENICA U SRPSKOM JEZIKU?

Author(s): Isidora Gatarić, Sanja Srdanović, Anja Šarić
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: a–morphous morphology; derived nouns; deverbal nominalization; distributed morphology; morpho–lexical processing

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study was to examine whether different morphological characteristics of Serbian deverbal nominals affect their lexical processing. According to morphological differences, there are three subtypes of the process and result deverbal nominals in Serbian: (i) result nominals end with the zero suffix, while process nominals end with the deverbal suffix –nje (e.g., žubor/žuborenje [eng. burble]); (ii) result nominals differ from process nominals in the presence of the –va infix (e.g., rešenje/rešavanje [eng. so-lution]); (iii) process nominals end with the deverbal suffix –nje, while result nominals end with other derivational suffixes (e.g., rotiranje/rotacija [eng. rotation]). The final results of three self–paced reading experiments suggest that different morphological features do not affect the processing of deverbal nominals, which strongly supports a–morphous approach to the morpho–lexical processing, as well as the distributed morphology perspective in the field of theoretical linguistics.

  • Issue Year: 12/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 139-156
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English
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