FACTORS OF WORD ACTIVATION IN MENTAL LEXICON UNDER CLOSELY RELATED BILINGUALISM Cover Image

ФАКТОРЫ АКТИВАЦИИ ЕДИНИЦ МЕНТАЛЬНОГО ЛЕКСИКОНА ПРИ БЛИЗКОРОДСТВЕННОМ БИЛИНГВИЗМЕ
FACTORS OF WORD ACTIVATION IN MENTAL LEXICON UNDER CLOSELY RELATED BILINGUALISM

Author(s): Ekaterina Khudiakova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: mental lexicon; closely related bilingualism; Russian; Czech; word activation; speech frequency; cognates; semantic motivation

Summary/Abstract: The influence of factors of speech frequency, phonetic similarity (cognates) and the presence of a motivating semantic connection (“internal form of a word”) on the word activation when moving from the native language to the unit of the second one and vice versa is considered in the article. It is shown that the lexicon in the native language (Russian) is organized semantically and the units store the speech frequency. A foreign language lexicon “builds on” it, while the search of Czech units is carried out according to a formal (phonetic) principle. The presence of a real etymological link between the closely related units of bilingual lexicon is ignored by the students, instead there is a tendency to false etymologization.

  • Issue Year: 16/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 230-245
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Russian
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