Lexical Categories or Frequency Effects? A Feedback from Quantitative Methods Applied to Psycholinguistic Models in two Studies on Italian

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  • Francesca Franzon
  • Giorgio Arcara
  • Chiara Zanini
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English. We examined two issues concerning Italian Number morphology: the phenomena related to mass and count nouns and to the plural dominance. By taking into account quantitative data from corpora and subjective frequency ratings in three mixed effect models, we found that differences in participants’ performance in two lexical decision tasks could be better captured as differences in frequency rather than in terms of effects of lexical categories. Italiano. In questo studio sono stati posti a confronto due fenomeni pertinenti alla morfologia nominale di Numero in italiano: la contabilità dei nomi e la dominanza plurale. Integrando i dati quantitativi provenienti dai corpora e da due studi di rating in un’analisi statistica condotta tramite modelli a effetti misti, risulta che le differenze nella prestazione dei partecipanti in due studi di decisione lessicale sono riconducibili a effetti di frequenza piuttosto che alla presenza di tratti lessicali categoriali.

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تاریخ انتشار 2016