Constructing Pseudowords with Constraints on Morphological Features - Application for Polish Pseudonouns and Pseudoverbs
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Published:2022-08-05
Issue:6
Volume:51
Page:1247-1265
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ISSN:0090-6905
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Container-title:Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
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language:en
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Short-container-title:J Psycholinguist Res
Author:
Dołżycka Joanna DariaORCID, Nikadon Jan, Formanowicz Magdalena
Abstract
AbstractPseudowords allow researchers to investigate multiple grammatical or syntactic aspects of language processing. In order to serve that purpose, pseudoword stimuli need to preserve certain properties of real language. We provide a Python-based pipeline for the generation of pseudoword stimuli that sound/read naturally in a given language. The pseudowords are designed to resemble real words and clearly indicate their grammatical class for languages that use specific suffixes from parts of speech. We also provide two sets of pseudonouns and pseudoverbs in Polish that are outcomes of the applied pipeline. The sets are equipped with psycholinguistically relevant properties of words, such as orthographic Levenshtein distance 20. We also performed two studies (overall N = 640) to test the validity of the algorithmically constructed stimuli in a human sample. Thus, we present stimuli that were deprived of direct meaning yet are clearly classifiable as grammatical categories while being orthographically and phonologically plausible.
Funder
National Science Centre, Poland Universität Ulm
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Psychology,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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