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К проблеме родственных глаголов в ментальном лексиконе
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