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Psycholinguistic Variables in Lexical-Semantic Processing of Antonyms
Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023. urn:nbn:hr:131:777486
Uštulica, Dora
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English language and literature

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Uštulica, D. (2023). Psycholinguistic Variables in Lexical-Semantic Processing of Antonyms (Master's thesis). Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:777486

Uštulica, Dora. "Psycholinguistic Variables in Lexical-Semantic Processing of Antonyms." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:777486

Uštulica, Dora. "Psycholinguistic Variables in Lexical-Semantic Processing of Antonyms." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:777486

Uštulica, D. (2023). 'Psycholinguistic Variables in Lexical-Semantic Processing of Antonyms', Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 28 May 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:777486

Uštulica D. Psycholinguistic Variables in Lexical-Semantic Processing of Antonyms [Master's thesis]. Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2023 [cited 2024 May 28] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:777486

D. Uštulica, "Psycholinguistic Variables in Lexical-Semantic Processing of Antonyms", Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, 2023. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:777486

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TitlePsycholinguistic Variables in Lexical-Semantic Processing of Antonyms
AuthorDora Uštulica
MentorMilena Žic Fuchs (mentor)
MentorJanja Čulig (mentor)
Committee memberMilena Žic Fuchs (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberJanja Čulig (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberMarina Grubišić (član povjerenstva)
GranterUniversity of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English language and literature)
Zagreb
Defense date and country2023-01-23, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
In this study we have aimed to examine the role of psycholinguistic variables in the lexical-semantic processing of antonyms. The focus of the study was on the impact of convention on processing antonym pairs, as expressed with the psycholinguistic variable of reaction time. The aim was to further clarify antonymy, not only as a lexical, but also as a conceptual phenomenon. We used a reaction time experiment to test processing of three different categories of antonyms. Namely, those classified, upon doing a corpus analysis to determine their respective frequencies, as highly conventionalized, less highly conventionalized and unconventional. Our experiment has confirmed that there is indeed correlation between convention, as expressed by frequency, and reaction time. We take that as just another confirmation of antonymy being not only a lexical but a conceptual phenomenon too, in which both the knowledge of the language and the knowledge of the world play an important part. Finally, we have laid out some of the ways in which this lexical and conceptual phenomenon could be further studied to get more reliable results to account for the observed effects.
Keywords
Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:131:777486
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Translation
Course: Linguistics
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
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