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    "pk": 25601,
    "title": "Constructional paradigms affect visual lexical decision latencies in English",
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    "abstract": "Previous research on morphological processing suggests that\nthe probability distribution of a word across its inflected\nvariants influences the recognition of that word. Recently,\nsimilar effects have been reported for relations between\nprepositions and definite-noun-phrase heads in English\ntrigrams (e.g., in the bucket). In the present study, we test\nwhether both effects could be accounted for in terms of string\nproximity and/or semantic similarity alone, or whether the\nfindings for English trigrams should be attributed to syntactic\nparadigm effects. We ‘fake’ a case system for English using\nsyntactic positions and prepositions as proxies for the\nrelational meanings expressed inflectionally in other\nlanguages. Based on these syntactic factors, we define a\nsyntactic inflectional entropy to parallel the morphological\nentropy measures used in prior studies. We found that this\nnew measure correlates negatively with visual lexical decision\nRTs. However, unlike prior studies, we did not find a\nsemantic priming effect between nouns with similar\ndistributions in our paradigmatic vectors. This finding\nsuggests that abstract constructional distributions facilitate\nlexical access while obscuring semantic relations between\nsimilarly distributed words",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "inflectional entropy; case systems; morphology;\nlexicon."
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1th0w6t8",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Nicholas",
            "middle_name": "A",
            "last_name": "Lester",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UCSB",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Fermin",
            "middle_name": "Moscoso",
            "last_name": "del Prado",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UCSB",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}