Compositionality in Bangla Compound Verbs and their Processing in the Mental Lexicon
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چکیده
We conduct a cross-modal priming experiment to determine the mental representation and access strategies for compound verbs (CV) in Bangla. Analysis of reaction time indicates that compositionality among CVs triggers priming effects for both the constituent verbs. On the other hand non-compositional CVs exhibit priming only for the polar verb. Thus, compositional CVs are decomposed into their constituent verbs during processing. On the other hand, non-compositional verb phrases are represented and accessed as a whole in the minds of a Bangla speaker. The reaction time data thus collected are used to evaluate our vector space model for compositionality judgment.
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