L’hypothèse sur laquelle repose notre travail est que la comparaison de la lexicalisation des noms d’éléments du corps (dorénavant, NEC) et de la phraséologie des NEC entre deux langues va permettre de mettre en évidence des différences de conceptualisation et de culture entre deux sociétés. En fonction de cette hypothèse, notre thèse aborde deux thèmes principaux. Premièrement, nous étudions les NEC coréens (dorénavant, NECC) en nous focalisant sur les noms neutres d’éléments externes du corps humain. Les NECC ont des caractéristiques universelles : richesse lexicale, éléments du vocabulaire basique, source de l’« embodiment », universel physio-conceptuel et nature de quasi-prédicats sémantiques. En même temps, les NECC montrent des particularités sémantiques, syntaxiques et morphologiques liées aux spécificités de la langue coréenne. La comparaison de la lexicalisation des NECC et des NEC français montre que même si les éléments du corps sont des universels physio-conceptuels, il n’y a pas de correspondance lexicale univoque entre les deux langues. Deuxièmement, nous focalisons notre attention sur la phraséologie des NECC et sa modélisation dans le Réseau Lexical du Coréen, une modélisation lexicographique formelle fondée sur une conception relationnelle du lexique. Nous bornons la phraséologie des NECC aux collocations contrôlées par les NECC (par ex. koga oddukhada, litt. nez+SUB être.haut ‘avoir un nez haut et beau’). Dans la phraséologie des NECC, nous prenons aussi en compte la phraséologisation dans un mot-forme (par ex. napjakko, ‘nez aplati’). Nous appelons collocation morphologisée ce type de phrasème morphologique par opposition à la collocation lexicale. À partir de l’examen des collocations non seulement lexicales mais aussi morphologisées contrôlées par NEC, nous pouvons obtenir les composantes sémantiques de la définition de la base, le NEC. Après cela, nous proposons un patron universel de définition des NEC, qui est le fondement du modèle explicatif de la phraséologie des NEC. Ce modèle s’appuie sur l’hypothèse selon laquelle on peut trouver dans les définitions des NEC des composantes récurrentes. Différentes collocations (du type Magn, Ver, Bon, Real1, en termes de fonctions lexicales de la Théorie Sens-Texte) sont alors générées relativement au sémantisme de ces composantes. Finalement, nous comparons la description de la phraséologie des NECC à celle des NEC français, afin d’observer les diverses non-correspondances entre les phrasèmes des deux langues. Ce travail approfondit notre compréhension de la phraséologie aussi bien en général, qu’en tant qu’elle est appliquée au coréen et au français, et met en relief des différences culturelles encodées dans les deux langues. Il peut également trouver des applications en didactique et en traductologie. / The hypothesis on which our work is based is that the comparison of the lexicalization of body element nouns (henceforth, NEC, Fr. nom d’élément du corps) and the phraseology of the NEC between two languages will make it possible to highlight the differences of conceptualization and culture between two societies.According to this hypothesis, our thesis deals with two main themes. Firstly, we study the Korean NEC (henceforth, NECC, Fr. nom d’élément du corps coréen) focusing on the neutral nouns of human external body elements. The NECC have universal characteristics: lexical richness, elements of the basic vocabulary, sources of the embodiment, physio-conceptual universals and their nature of semantic quasi-predicates. At the same time, the NECC show language-specific semantic, syntactic and morphological characteristics. The comparison of the lexicalization of the NECC and the French NEC shows that even if the elements of the body are physio-conceptual universals, there is no univocal lexical correspondence between the two languages.Secondly, we focus our attention on the NECC’s phraseology and its modeling in the Korean Lexical Network, a formal lexicographic model based on a relational conceptualization of the lexicon. We limit the NECC’s phraseology to collocations the NECC control (ex. koga oddukhada, ‘have a high and pretty nose’). Within the NECC’s phraseology, we also take into account the phraseologisation in a word-form (ex. napjakko, ‘flat nose’). We denote this morphological phraseme by the term morphologised collocation, as opposed to the lexical collocation. From the examination of lexical and morphologised collocations which NECC control, we can identify the semantic components of the definition of the NECC. After that, we propose a universal definition pattern of the NEC, which is the foundation of the explanatory model of the NEC’s phraseology. This model is based on the assumption that recurrent components can be found in the definitions of NEC. Different collocations (of the type Magn, Ver, Bon, Real1, in terms of Lexical Functions of the Meaning-Text Theory) are then generated from the semantism of these components. Finally, we compare the description of the phraseology of the NECC with that of the French NEC, in order to observe the various non-correspondences between the phrasemes of the two languages.This work deepens our understanding of phraseology in general and in specific languages (Korean and French), and highlights cultural differences encoded in both languages. It can also find applications in didactics and translation.

The present study investigated whether the teaching of L2 vocabulary with still cartoon pictures and animated cartoon pictures would result in a significant difference in second language learners' receptive and productive knowledge of the target words. Also, the effect of test type (receptive vs. productive) on participants' retention of the target words was examined. Finally, the study tried to find out whether the semantic category of vocabulary words influences the rate of successful vocabulary retention across picture types. For the purpose, a group of 17 ESL students from a Midwestern University participated in both treatments with still and animated pictures, followed by vocabulary tests. The results showed that over 80% of the target words were successfully retrieved on the receptive knowledge tests vs. only about 40% successful retrieval on the productive knowledge tests. Yet, the results did not reveal significant differences in vocabulary gain due to picture type as both treatments showed similar success rate of retention of the target words, especially in view of receptive knowledge. Also, neither of the two types of pictures was effective in facilitating productive knowledge of the target words. In addition, the study found that some semantic categories of vocabulary words may be easier to recall than others.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-03-09Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:33:25Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 prado_nc_me_arafcl.pdf: 1436239 bytes, checksum: 1b34fa42aabc01ff09212f68db8c5a7b (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / O objetivo desta pesquisa é fazer uma ponte entre o passado e o presente, comparando processos morfofonológicos desencadeados pela derivação, ou seja, processos que alteram a forma dos morfemas. Este trabalho surge da necessidade de se levar em conta para a descrição de determinados contextos não apenas sons, mas fatos de natureza gramatical, principalmente morfológica, por isso dizemos que “quando uma forma básica lexical serve de motivação para uma regra fonológica, acontece um processo morfofonológico” (Cagliari, 2002, p.82). Realizamos este estudo entre duas sincronias da língua portuguesa: o Português Arcaico (PA), dos séculos XII-XIII, e o Português Brasileiro (PB), dos séculos XX-XXI. Nesses dois períodos da língua portuguesa, observamos os processos morfofonológicos desencadeados por dois sufixos derivacionais específicos, formadores de nomes deverbais em PA e em PB, isto é, nomes formados a partir de bases verbais: -çon e –mento, para o PA, e –ção e –mento, para o PB. Para a coleta dos dados no PA, escolhemos como corpus as Cantigas de Santa Maria (CSM), que são uma das fontes mais ricas dessa época e, além disso, de acordo com Mattos e Silva (2006, p.37), os textos líricos são os melhores para o estudo da fonética segmental e prosódica da língua e seus dados, essenciais para o conhecimento do léxico dessa época. Já para a observação do PB, contamos com um recorte do banco de dados do Laboratório de Lexicografia da UNESP (LabLEX) que contém um corpus que possui cerca de 220 milhões de ocorrências do português do Brasil, colhidas em diversas fontes, desde as literárias até as jornalísticas. A partir das palavras provenientes desses corpora, procedemos as analises dos processos morfofonológicos que são condicionados pela formação de nomes deverbais com os sufixos selecionados, utilizando o aparato teórico das teorias... / This research is aimed at relating past and present, comparing morphophonological processes triggered by derivation, i.e., processes that change the shape of morphemes. This work considers that it is necessary to describe not only sounds but grammatical facts in some contexts, especially in the case of morphological facts; when a lexical basis is a motivation for a phonological rule, a morphophonological process occurs (Cagliari, 2002, p.82). We conducted this study comparing two periods of the Portuguese language: Archaic Portuguese (AP), 12th-13th centuries, and Brazilian Portuguese (BP), 20th-21st centuries. In these two periods of the Portuguese language, we observed morphophonological processes triggered by two specific derivational suffixes which create deverbal nouns in AP and BP, that is, nouns formed from verbal basis: -çon and –mento, for AP, and –ção e -mento for BP. The corpus for AP is composed by the Cantigas de Santa Maria (CSM), which can be considered one of the richest linguistic sources of that time and, moreover, according to Mattos e Silva (2006, p.37), poetical texts are the best ones to study segmental and prosodic phonetics of past languages and the data they provide are essential to the knowledge of the lexicon of that period. As for the observation of PB, we considered some of the data form from the database of the Laboratorio de Lexicografia [Laboratory of Lexicography] at UNESP (LabLEX), which contains a corpus with about 220 million occurrences of Brazilian Portuguese texts, collected from several sources, from literary to journalistic ones. From the words of these corpora, we analyzed morphophonological processes that are conditioned by the formation of deverbal nouns with the specific suffixes which are focused in this Dissertation, using the theoretical apparatus of nonlinear phonological theories, especially Feature Geometry Theory and Lexical ...(Complete abstract click electronic address below)

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The current study investigates the use of a selected group of nouns in the domain of FIRE in written Mainland Scandinavian languages, i.e. Danish, Norwegian (bokmål) and Swedish. The main goal is to capture the semantic features of the nouns by examining typical situations where they occur, following the frame-method for lexical studies by Rakhilina & Reznikova (2016). The nouns are examined in terms of their combinatorial patterning in compounds with other nouns, in trigrams and in figurative use. The synchronic data is drawn from corpora, lexica and first speaker intuition. Four parameters are formulated, which seem to play a role in the lexical use among the fire words, in the three languages. The nouns are structured according to the parameters and each lexeme displays combinatorial pattern revealing semantic restrictions. The selected ‘fire nouns’ are fairly similar, but differ in terms of semantic load most prominently among the lexemes that refer to controllable fires. The lexemes relevant for the parameter of ‘subcomponents of fire processes’ display an asymmetry, which needs to be studied further. The scope of the current study also includes two lexemes in Swedish that semantically have not been possible to disentangle. On the whole, at least the controllability of the fire is lexically encoded, possibly because that property is crucial for survival.

Collective nouns are a category of nouns that refer to a group of people or things. This group of nouns has the special characteristic that when in singular form, they can be followed by either a singular or a plural verb. This feature of collective nouns has attracted a great deal of attention from researchers and traditional grammarians, who in the last few decades have tried to explain this phenomenon by investigating different perspectives on it, thereby taking into consideration morphological, syntactic and semantic, as well as variational and discourse-specific differences (Biber et al, 1999; Levin, 2001; Depraetere, 2003). One of the main assumptions that has been suggested in the literature is that collective nouns have specific concord preferences, allowing for either a singular or a plural verb or both. Another assumption that has also been invoked is that when collective nouns are part of a complex noun phrase, as for instance in the phrase the rest of (the) society, in which the collective is part of the of-phrase, the plural tends to be used. Based on these two assumptions, the aim of this thesis is to further investigate, firstly whether a singular or a plural verb is used after expressions where a collective noun is being modified by a quantifying noun expression (e.g. the rest of, part of), secondly whether the concord preferences the collective nouns have an influence on the verbal concord and finally if there is any difference between the two main varieties of English, namely British and American English. Since this is a topic of actual language use, the methods used in corpus linguistic research are also employed in the thesis. More specifically, by looking at the instances of quantifying noun expressions modifying collective nouns as well as the frequency with which such constructions occur in two different corpora, the enTenTen13 and the GloWbE (Corpus of Global Web-Based English), the thesis seeks to answer the aforementioned questions. From the analysis of the data it was concluded that in some cases the concord preferences of the collective nouns influenced the verb form following the complex noun phrases, whereas in others these preferences did not determine the selection of the verb form. Syntactic, semantic as well as contextual factors seem to also influence the selection of the verb form. Furthermore, variational differences occurred, since in British English the plural was more often used with collective nouns that prefer the plural concord over the singular one or that are more variable in their concord patterns, whereas in American English the singular was the preferred choice in all cases.

This essay analysed how gender is established in students’ texts. The aim of the study was to find out if the students in a class in an upper secondary school were able to produce texts where female and male subjects were not influenced by prevailing gender roles. The analysis was based on Halliday’s Functional Grammar Theory. Furthermore, the results are interpreted in the light of the guidelines of the Curriculum and the Education Act. To fulfil the aim of this essay 32 texts were analysed from the extra linguistic factor of gender.                       The linguistic factors examined were verbs (dynamic/stative, transitive/intransitive), if the subjects function as actors or not were the factors used to establish if there is a difference between how females and males are represented in the texts. Furthermore the use of adjectives, nouns and predicatives modifying the grammatical subjects were also taken in consideration in the analysis. The hypothesis was based on a previous study made on the teaching book Blueprint A and the results from this current study were compared to the results from that study. The study finds that in the texts examined females are established as more stative than males and because of that it is possible to draw conclusions that the teaching book can influence the student in their writing but also that school not always uphold the goals of the Curriculum and the Education Act in the issue regarding gender equality.

A central area of research in linguistics is the study of changes in vocabulary over time, be it over historical time periods or faster changes within generations. One contributing factor driving such fast changes could be “fashion cycles”, as this is a very general cultural phenomenon. Here, results are reported from a corpus study investigating trends over time in the use of cyber as the first part of compound nouns, and of alternatives which carry a similar meaning, such as e- as short for electronic. It is found that cyber was commonly used in the time period 1995-2004. Usage then strongly declined, but there was a new peak in popularity in the last year of available data (2012). Interestingly, cyber was initially used in positively charged or neutral contexts (e.g. cyberspace), but in recent years mostly in negatively charged words such as cyberbullying or cyber warfare. The hypothesis that cyber has been replaced with e- was partially supported (in particular in the case of e-mail, but e-books is another prominent example of a recent rising trend in vocabulary). However, in most other contexts usage of e- actually peaked a few years before the last years of the available corpus data. In general, results were consistent with “fashion cycles” in that the popularity of using cyber or e-, and in particular of specific words including these compound noun parts, seems to come and go rapidly over time. Interestingly use of cyber was seen mostly in negative contexts during later time periods. No such change was apparent in the use of e-. An emerging hypothesis partially supported by the data is that words in commercial contexts (e.g. cyber-business, e-business) rapidly lose their positive charge as they become common and are replaced by other, more novel and more fashionable words. Corpus linguistics is a very powerful tool for investigating such patterns of change in the popularity of words, and the processes behind them.

<p>This work presents two studies of language processing and development in children. The first study focuses on passive sentence comprehension in 4-5-year-old children with developmental language disorder (DLD) and same-age peers with typical development (TD). We explore the effect of animacy, morphosyntactic, vocabulary, and event probability cues on children’s offline comprehension and online processing of passive sentences using an eye-tracked looking-while-listening design. The children were first exposed to short videos of agents doing characteristic actions (e.g., hard physical activities or passively observant activities). The children then engaged in an eye-tracked online processing task in which they heard reversible and nonreversible passive sentences describing events that matched or did not match the characteristics set up in the exposure videos. During these sentences, images on-screen were displayed that corresponded to the potential interpretations of the sentence. Online processing data was collected using eye tracking. After each sentence, the children were asked to point to the image corresponding to their interpretation to measure their offline comprehension. The offline comprehension data indicated that compared to the children with TD, the children with DLD were less likely to correctly interpret the passive sentences and made comprehension errors that suggested poorer attention to and integration of potentially informative sentence cues. The eye-tracked online processing data was examined in two ways. First, we analyzed the online processing data to determine to what extent the children’s processing was consistent with the use of the sentence cues. We found that the children in the two groups were just as likely to demonstrate looking patterns consistent with the use animacy cues but children with DLD were less likely to use morphosyntactic, vocabulary, and event probability cues. We then analyzed the online processing data in correctly interpreted sentences only to examine how the sentence cues were integrated over the course of the sentence. We found that in correctly interpreted sentences, children with DLD demonstrated a slower, less robust response to most of the informative cues in the sentences but quicker and less linguistically mediated use of event probability cues. Finally, we examined the relationship between the children’s use of event probability cues and their stimuli-specific vocabulary knowledge but found no strong associations. </p><p><br></p><p> The second study focuses on the semantic network structure of the vocabularies of young 18-30-month-old children and its influence on noun and verb learning. Prior work had examined how noun semantic network structure affects noun learning. Here, we extended that work to ask how noun and verb semantic network structures differ in their influence on noun and verb learning. We examined vocabulary network structure at the word, semantic neighborhood, and lexicon levels in a large sample of child vocabulary checklist data using semantic features. We analyzed the data in three ways. First, we charted the relationship between verb and noun semantic network structure and vocabulary size across children. We found that early-learned nouns tended to have strong network relationships with other nouns and other verbs across network levels. We also found that early-learned verbs tended to have strong network relationships with other nouns but, in contrast, were unlikely to have strong relationships with other verbs. Next, we examined patterns of normative vocabulary development, asking whether the cross-sectional patterns seen in the first analysis influenced the time at which nouns and verbs tended to be learned. We found similar patterns. Nouns with strong semantic connections to other nouns and other verbs tended to be learned early. Verbs with strong semantic connections to other nouns tended to be learned early but verbs with strong semantic connections to other verbs tended to be learned later. Finally, in an effort to determine how the very earliest vocabulary knowledge sets the stage for later word learning, we examined how word knowledge gaps formed and were filled by nouns and verbs in normative vocabulary development. These gaps corresponded to structured “cavities” in the semantic networks. We found that nouns tended to form semantic cavities that were later filled by nouns and verbs, reinforcing the findings from the first analyses that early noun knowledge is a prerequisite for later verb learning. </p>

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