К проблеме родственных глаголов в ментальном лексиконе

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия 3: Филология. 2019. № 59. С. 36–53.

Chuprina A.

Memory of a person contains various kinds of information about the word and

its link to related words. To the topical (in terms of functioning) information pertains

the unity, full or partial, of their phonological and morphemic set-up, similarity of

morphological features, semantic properties and syntactic behaviour. What is more

important for the storage of the interrelated group and access to it: formal or semantic

link between the units? Results of psycholinguistic studies are classifi

ed into those

which testify to the equal signifi

cance of the form and meaning of related words for

the topicalisation of information in mental lexicon and those according to which it is

only the formal processing of the word that takes place during the access to the mental

representation of the word. Based on the material of a group of Russian verbs and their

prefi

xed and suffi

xed derivatives, this article studies which general information is more

important for the lexical access to the primary word in the Russian language, i. e. the

structural similarity of the verb with its prefi

xed derivative or predictability of the change

in semantics as to the suffi

xed derivative. A psycholinguistic experiment employing the

technique of morphological priming has been conducted. Its results have shown that

the predictability of semantics is more important in accessing the representation of the

primary verb in memory. The experiment has shown that even a short-time activisation

of the suffi

xed derivative before reading the primary verb is suffi

cient for this verb to be

recognised faster than in the case of preliminary activisation of the prefi

xed verb. This

leads to the conclusion that regular and predictable modifi

cations in the sense are more

important for the arrangement of related words than their shared phonological and

morphological features

Keywords: лексический доступ, глагольное словообразование, морфологический прайминг