Acesso e representação dos substantivos flexionados em número no léxico do português brasileiro

Jefferson Alves da Rocha; José Ferrari Neto

doi:10.46230/2674-8266-13-7375

Authors

Jefferson Alves da Rocha Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPb https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3011-6891
José Ferrari Neto Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPb https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2734-7197

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46230/2674-8266-13-7375

Keywords:

Lexicon, Morphology, Number Inflexion, Brazilian Portuguese, Priming

Abstract

We seek to investigate the processes of access and representation in the mental lexicon of words inflected in number in Brazilian Portuguese. Issues related to mental lexicon theories were observed in the psycholinguistic perspective, arguing that both the access to lexical items and their representation are done through morphemes, in the so-called Full Parsing Models (TAFT; FORSTER, 1975; TAFT, 1994 ); models that postulate access and representation through whole words, the Full Listening Models (BUTTERWORTH, 1983) are also presented; and the models that present access and lexical representation through morphemes and whole words, simultaneously, depending on aspects of frequency, known as Dual-route Models (CARAMAZZA; LAUDANNA; ROMANI, 1988; SCHREUDER; BAAYEN, 1995; MIMOUNI; KEHAYA; JAREMA, 1998). Regarding BP, we carried out a study to investigate the access and storage of nominal forms inflected in number, aiming to provide data about how access and lexical representation in this language takes place. Two experiments were carried out, in which native BP speakers were tested in Covert priming tests in relation to regular and irregular forms, respectively. Regarding the results, it can be said that a significant facilitation effect between primes and targets was found under identical and plural conditions in both experiments. The results also showed a significant frequency effect. Therefore, priming effects showed significant interactions between frequency and plural types, suggesting a dual-route model (DUAL-ROUTE) in BP.

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Author Biographies

Jefferson Alves da Rocha, Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPb

Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPB, Doutorando em Linguística, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística (Proling), João Pessoa/PB.

José Ferrari Neto, Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPb

Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPB, Doutor em Linguística pela PUC - Rio de Janeiro, Professor de Linguística e Língua Portuguesa da UFPB no Campus I, atuando no Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística (Proling), João Pessoa/PB.

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