Abstract: Pseudowords have long served as key tools in psycholinguistic investigations of the lexicon. A common assumption underlying the use of pseudowords is that they are devoid of meaning: Comparing words and pseudowords may then shed light on how meaningful linguistic elements are processed differently from meaningless sound strings.However, pseudowords may in fact carry meaning. On the basis of a computational model of lexical processing, Linear Discriminative Learning (LDL Baayen et al., 2019), we compute numeric vectors representing the semantics...
(read more)
Topics:
Natural language processing
Artificial intelligence
Linguistics