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Doğuş Öksüz1, Vaclav Brezina1, Padraic Monaghan1
1Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University.
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|January 16, 2024
Summary
This study shows that Turkish speakers are less sensitive to collocation frequency than English speakers, demonstrating language typology influences how we process word combinations. Both groups integrate word and phrase frequencies for language comprehension.
Area of Science:
- Psycholinguistics
- Comparative Linguistics
- Cognitive Science
Background:
- Collocations are crucial for language processing, but their psychological reality is mainly studied in English.
- Turkish, an agglutinating language, uses morphology differently than English, potentially affecting collocation processing.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the psychological reality of collocations in Turkish speakers compared to English speakers.
- To examine how language typology influences sensitivity to phrasal and word frequencies in language processing.
Main Methods:
- Corpus analysis of adjective-noun collocations in English and Turkish.
- Reaction time experiment measuring sensitivity to word and collocation frequencies in native English and Turkish speakers.
Main Results:
- Corpus analysis revealed differences in collocation frequency counts between English and Turkish.
- Turkish speakers showed less sensitivity to whole-phrase frequencies compared to English speakers.
- Both groups demonstrated sensitivity to frequency information at both word and phrase levels.
Conclusions:
- Collocations are processed less holistically in Turkish than in English, aligning with linguistic typology.
- Language processing involves integrating frequency information across multiple grain sizes (words and phrases).
- Findings highlight the interplay between linguistic structure and cognitive processing of multi-word units.
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