Competition between conceptual relations affects compound recognition: the role of entropy
| dc.contributor.author | Schmidtke, Daniel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kuperman, Victor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gagné, Christina | |
| dc.contributor.author | Thomas, Spalding | |
| dc.contributor.department | Cognitive Science of Language | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-29T21:13:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-29T21:13:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-04-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Previous research has suggested that the conceptual representation of a compound is based on a relational structure linking the compound’s constituents. Existing accounts of the visual recognition of modifier–head or noun–noun compounds posit that the process involves the selection of a relational structure out of a set of competing relational structures associated with the same compound. In this article, we employ the information-theoretic metric of entropy to gauge relational competition and investigate its effect on the visual identification of established English compounds. The data from two lexical decision megastudies indicates that greater entropy (i.e., increased competition) in a set of conceptual relations associated with a compound is associated with longer lexical decision latencies. This finding indicates that there exists competition between potential meanings associated with the same complex word form. We provide empirical support for conceptual composition during compound word processing in a model that incorporates the effect of the integration of co-activated and competing relational information. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the Ontario Trillium Award and a Graduate fellowship awarded by the Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship to the first author. The second author’s contribution was partially supported by the SSHRC Insight Development grant 430-2012-0488, the NSERC Discovery grant 402395-2012, the NIH R01 HD 073288 (PI Julie A. Van Dyke), and the Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Research Fund. The third author’s contribution was supported by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (05100). The fourth author’s contribution was supported by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (250028). Thanks are due to Bryor Snefjella for his valuable comments on earlier drafts of this work. We thank for technical support the Research & High-Performance Computing Support group at McMaster University. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Schmidtke, D., Kuperman, V., Gagné, C. L., & Spalding, T. L. (2016). Competition between conceptual relations affects compound recognition: the role of entropy. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(2), 556-570. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1069-9384 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1531-5320 | |
| dc.identifier.other | https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0926-0 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22538 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
| dc.subject | Word recognition | en_US |
| dc.subject | Morphology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Entropy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Lexical decision | en_US |
| dc.subject | Conceptual combination | en_US |
| dc.title | Competition between conceptual relations affects compound recognition: the role of entropy | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |