The notion of entrenchment: A psycholinguistic experiment on L1 and L2 processing of morphologically complex words

Hélène Giraudo (1) , Serena Dal Maso (2)

1 CLLE-ERSS - Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie
2 Department Philology, Literature, and Linguistics

The research aims at investigating the degree of entrenchment of morphologically complex words in L1 and L2 users' competence and its effect on word processing. In usage-based models, an element is conceived as mentally entrenched when it is perceived as a unit which has cognitive precedence over its components (see Blumenthal-Dramé 2012, but also Bybee 2010 and Tomasello 2003). As far as morphologically complex words are concerned, entrenchment is determined by the strength of the lexical representation of the complex words (as a whole) and of its morphological constituents. Lexical strength, in its turn, mainly depends on token frequency.

Domaines: Psychologie

Hélène Giraudo, Serena Dal Maso. The notion of entrenchment: A psycholinguistic experiment on L1 and L2 processing of morphologically complex words. Secondo Convegno Interannuale della Societa Di Linguistica Italiana, May 2014, Bolzano, Italy. ⟨hal-00986209⟩