Autori
Manouilidou, Christina
Ristić, Bojana
Kavčič Hvala, Karin
Stockall, Linnaea
Žaucer, Rok

Titolo
Dissociating syntactic licensing from semantic well-formedness in South Slavic complex pseudoword processing
Periodico
Lingue e linguaggio
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 48 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 249 - Pagina finale: 287

We disassociate two stages in visual complex pseudoword recognition, namely syntactic "licensing" and "semantic composition" (Neophytou et al. 2018), by comparing pseudowords violating category selection rules to those violating semantic rules of affix attachment in two closely related languages: Slovenian and Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian. Contrary to previous studies relying on argument structure violations in Greek and English (e.g., Manouilidou & Stockall 2014), we based our semantic violations on a more unambiguously semantic restriction of "state stability" by focusing on prefixes "raz"-, "od"-, and "vz-/uz"- that do not attach to "stable state" verbs ('to dwell'). In two acceptability judgment tasks and two lexical decision tasks, we show that semantic violations ("raz"-'dwell') are consistently more acceptable, rejected more slowly, and less accurately than category selection violations ("raz"-'mother'), across prefixes and languages. This adds evidence for the distinction between two post-decomposition stages from a new semantic dimension and supports the universality of this distinction in lexical processing.



SICI: 1720-9331(2025)48:2<249:DSLFSW>2.0.ZU;2-K
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