Psycholinguistic Variables in Lexical-Semantic Processing of Antonyms

Uštulica, Dora

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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

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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 2025 March 22] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:777486

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Title	Psycholinguistic Variables in Lexical-Semantic Processing of Antonyms
Author	Dora Uštulica
Mentor	Milena Žic Fuchs (mentor)
Mentor	Janja Čulig (mentor)
Committee member	Milena Žic Fuchs (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee member	Janja Čulig (član povjerenstva)
Committee member	Marina Grubišić (član povjerenstva)
Granter	University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Department of English language and literature) Zagreb
Defense date and country	2023-01-23, 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.
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Language	english
URN:NBN	urn:nbn:hr:131:777486
Study programme	Title: 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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