Processamento do verbo francês através da decomposição lexical

Gustavo Lopez Estivalet, Fanny Elise Meunier

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O presente trabalho realizou uma investigação psicolinguística da decomposição morfológica verbal no acesso lexical em francês. Aplicou-se um experimento de decisão lexical visual com diferentes tipos de estruturas verbais como estímulos, a fim de identificar os processos de decomposição lexical, a estrutura hierárquica do verbo francês e o processamento dos diferentes morfemas para o acesso lexical no reconhecimento visual de verbos. Testaram-se diferentes tipos de verbos e pseudoverbos com as seguintes estruturas: a. morfologicamente ilegais (*abrou), b. contendo somente base existente (*[aim]ou), c. contendo somente sufixo flexional existente (*abr[ons]), d. inexistentes mas morfologicamente legais (*[aim][ir]) e e. existentes e morfologicamente legais ([[aim][ons]]). Ainda, testaram-se verbos com: a. um (aim[ons]) ou b. dois (aim[i][ons]) sufixos flexionais, e a mesma testagem foi feita com pseudoverbos (*abr[ons], *abr[i][ons]), para identificar diferenças no processamento morfossintático. As análises estatísticas apresentaram diferenças significativas entre pseudoverbos contendo apenas base existente e verbos existentes, e entre pseudoverbos contendo apenas sufixo flexional existente e verbos inexistentes mas morfologicamente legais. Houve diferenças significativas em relação ao número de sufixos flexionais nos pseudoverbos contendo somente sufixo flexional existente, assim como nos verbos existentes e morfologicamente legais. Assim, esse estudo estabeleceu a hierarquia do processamento dos diferentes morfemas que constituem o verbo francês. Os resultados mostram que todos os verbos do francês são passíveis de decomposição, sendo primeiramente decompostos em base e sufixos flexionais e posteriormente possuem seu morfema lexical da base ativado para o acesso semântico. A presente investigação sugere um modelo de decomposição morfológica completa em unidades mínimas para o acesso lexical e reconhecimento visual do verbo francês.

This study conducted a psycholinguistic investigation of the verbal morphological decomposition in French lexical access. It was applied a visual lexical decision task experiment with different types of verbal structures as stimuli to identify the word decompositional processes, the hierarchical structure of the French verb, and the processing of the different morphemes for lexical access in visual word recognition. The different structures of verbs and pseudoverbs tested were: a. morphologically illegal (*abrou), b. only existent base (*[aim] ou), c. only existent inflectional suffix (*abr[ons]), d. inexistent but morphologically legal (*[aim][ir]), and e. existent and morphologically legal ([[aim][ons]]). It was also tested verbs with: a. one (aim[ons]) or b. two (aim[i][ons]) inflectional suffixes, and the same test was made on pseudoverbs (*abr[ons], *abr[i][ons]), in order to identify the morphosyntactic processing differences. The statistical analyses showed significant differences between pseudoverbs containing only existent base and existent verbs, and between pseudoverbs containing only existent inflectional suffix and inexistent but morphologically legal verbs. Still, there were significant differences in relation to the number of inflectional suffixes in pseudoverbs containing only existent inflectional suffix and in existent and morphologically legal verbs. Therefore, this study establishes the processing hierarchy of the different morphemes concatenated in the French verb. Finally, the results indicate that all verbs are decomposable, being early decomposed into base and inflectional suffixes and later have the base lexical morpheme activated for semantic access. Overall, the present investigation suggests a full decompositional morphological model in minimal units for the lexical access and visual word recognition on French verbs.


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morfologia; flexão verbal; pseudopalavra; decomposição; processamento; morphology; verbal inflection; pseudowords; decomposition, processing

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2238-3824.20.2.73-93

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