Psycholinguistic Investigation of Lexical Access in Hebrew and Maltese

希伯来语和马耳他语词汇访问的心理语言学调查

• 批准号: 0715500
• 负责人: Adam Ussishkin
• 金额: $ 16.68万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0715500&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Psycholinguistic; Investigation; Lexical; Access; Hebrew

Languages belonging to the Semitic sub-family of the Afro-Asiatic language family are known for their very unusual characteristics. Most famous among these is the discontiguous nature of the elements that make up related words in these languages. For instance, the Hebrew words gadal 'he grew', gadol 'big', higdila 'she enlarged' and migdal 'tower' all share a meaning connected to size, yet it is impossible to isolate a contiguous string of sounds shared by these words. Instead, the words share the three root consonants 'gdl', which never occur by themselves in isolation. A long-standing question about word structure in this type of language concerns the possible ways in which native speakers of Hebrew and other Semitic languages store these words in their mind. One theory hypothesizes that the unit 'gdl' is stored, while another theory hypothesizes that the actual words themselves are stored. This project will investigate which of these theories is more likely to be correct by studying two Semitic languages, Hebrew and Maltese. Databases for each language will be created in order to properly document and compute words in these languages, along with their relevant properties. Psycholinguistic experiments will then be carried out in order to probe how speakers of these languages store words.The database component of the research project will be of great use to other researchers in a variety of fields. Additionally, the research will encourage cross-disciplinary research on these languages, and promote the visibility of Maltese, which is an under-documented language. The research has potential consequences for language pedagogy, because it will lead to new knowledge about the mental retrieval of words in Hebrew and Maltese.This project is co-funded by the Office of International Science and Engineering.

属于非洲亚洲语言家族的闪族子家庭的语言以其非常不寻常的特征而闻名。其中最著名的是用这些语言组成相关词的元素的不连续性。例如，希伯来语的话gadal“他成长”，Gadol“ Big”，Higdila“ She She She gromed”和Migdal'Tower'都具有与大小相关的含义，但是不可能隔离这些单词共享的一连串的声音。取而代之的是，这些单词共享三个根辅音“ gdl”，这些辅音自身孤立地不会出现。关于这种语言中单词结构的一个长期存在的问题涉及希伯来语和其他闪族语言以这些单词存储这些单词的可能方式。一种理论假设存储了单位“ GDL”，而另一种理论假设实际单词本身是存储的。该项目将通过研究两种闪族语言，希伯来语和马耳他语，调查这些理论中的哪些理论更有可能是正确的。 将创建每种语言的数据库，以正确地记录和计算这些语言的单词以及其相关属性。 然后将进行心理语言实验，以探究这些语言的扬声器如何存储单词。研究项目的数据库组成部分将对各种领域的其他研究人员有很大的帮助。此外，该研究将鼓励对这些语言的跨学科研究，并促进马耳他语的可见性，马耳他语言是一种有据可查的语言。 这项研究对语言教学法产生了潜在的后果，因为它将导致有关希伯来语和马耳他语中单词的心理检索的新知识。该项目由国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。