Lexical expansion: access to English loan-words with Portuguese morphology

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2020.v16nEsp.a20134

Keywords:

Lexical Expansion, Lexical Decision, Word Processing, Loan Words.

Abstract

Lexical Expansion is a recurring theme in historical linguistics and sociolinguistics. As far as we know, the present study is the first attempt to pursuit the subject through an experimental approach. In the present paper, we report the results of a lexical decision test based on loan words from English that accept affixes from Brazilian Portuguese (eg. clipagem, cropar). A CRT regression tree indicates that participants recognize these words better than pseudowords. However, their responses are slower and cannot be compared to responses for English or for Brazilian Portuguese words.

Author Biographies

Fernando Luis Sabatini, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Graduando em Letras – Língua Portuguesa.

Thiago Oliveira da Motta Sampaio, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística e do Departamento de Linguística.

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Published

2020-11-07

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Vol. 16 (2020): Special Issue - Celebrating over 50 years of the Graduate Linguistics Program at UFRJ and of the Professor Emeritus Miriam Lemle’s career

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