¿qué ocurre cuando comparamos dos unidades léxicas sinónimas? un estudio psicolingüístico sobre la naturaleza de la sinonimia*
- MARÍA DEL CARMEN HORNO-CHÉLIZ
- RAQUEL TIMOR
- ANTONIO SARASA
ISSN: 0033-698X, 0718-4883
Year of publication: 2018
Issue: 56
Pages: 149-168
Type: Article
More publications in: RLA: Revista de lingüística teórica y aplicada
Abstract
The aim of this research is the analysis of synonymy through an experimental design. Three questions have been considered: 1) is the synonymy relationship gradual or discrete? 2) is the conscious perception of the synonymy realistic? And 3) how does the brain processes this relationship? Following a previous work by Recarte Goldaracena and Peraita Adrados (1988), a lexical decision task (where participant should decide whether two items were synonyms) has been prepared. Following this task, participants were asked to mark, in a ten-Likert scale how synonyms the same partners of words were. As the result of this research, synonymy seems to be a gradual, mirrored, holistic and real relationship, which works both in the conscious and unconscious processing of language information.