Kognitivna obrada prideva

Abstract

U dva eksperimenta sa zadatkom leksičke odluke ispitana je obrada inflektivnih oblika prideva u srpskom jeziku. U istraživanju su postavljena sledeća pitanja: a) da li pridevi, kao i imenice, sadrže sintaksičke funkcije/značenja, b) da li je pridevski rod kognitivno relevantna kategorija, c) da li je kognitivni sistem osetljiv na padež prideva, i d) da li je pri obradi prideva kognitivni sistem osetljiv na broj inflektivnih oblika imenice sa kojima je dati oblik prideva kongruentan. U skladu sa navedenim pitanjima predložene su jednačine iz kojih se izvodi količina informacije inflektivnih oblika prideva. Dobijeni rezultati pokazuju da inflektivni oblik prideva uključuje padežne funkcije/značenja i da kognitivni sistem nije osetljiv na rod prideva. Postoje indicije da je kognitivni sistem osetljiv na padež prideva i na broj inflektivnih oblika imenice sa kojima je određeni oblik prideva kongruentan. Ovi nalazi, međutim, zahtevaju dodatnu proveru.

Processing of inflected Serbian verbs was investigated in two lexical decision experiments. Specifically, the following issues were addressed: a. does the adjectival system contain syntactic functions and meanings, and b. are adjectival gender and case cognitively relevant properties. Each of the above issues could be expressed in terms of alternative equations that generate the amount of information carried by inflected form of an adjective. The informational values were correlated with mean reaction time to inflected adjectival forms. The outcome of the two experiments indicated that number of syntactic functions/meanings is the obligatory term in the equation that generates the amount of information carried by an adjectival inflected form. However, unlike nouns, where the amount information was specified in terms of ratio between a. sum of frequencies of inflected cases encompassed by a given inflected form and b. sum of its functions/ meanings, equation for adjectives includes sum of frequency by number of syntactic functions/meanings ratios for cases encompassed by a given inflected adjectival form. This, on the other hand, suggests that cognitive system when processing inflected adjectives is to some extent sensitive to adjectival case. It was also demonstrated that cognitive system is not sensitive to adjective gender.