TY  - JOUR
TI  - Investigating collocational priming in Turkish
AB  - Several attempts have been made to illustrate the organization of the monolingual mental lexicon and eachmodel proposed so far has highlighted different aspects of lexical processing. What they have in common is thefact that their depictions rely on single lexical items and paradigmatic relations come to the fore in theirexplanations. Hoey‟s lexical priming theory (2005) tries to shed light on the issue of collocational processing inthe internal lexicon from a cognitive and psycholinguistic perspective and its importance for our overall creativelanguage production. A number of psycholinguistic studies have tested Hoey's theory as it relates to English, butwork in other languages is limited. The present study broadens the scope of work in this area by investigatingwhether collocational priming also holds for speakers of Turkish. Furthermore, the possible influence offrequency and part of speech on collocational priming is scrutinized by exploring the correlations betweenresponse times in the priming experiment and these independent variables. The findings revealed a significantcollocational priming effect for Turkish L1 users, in line with Hoey‟s claims. The regression analysis indicatedfrequency and part of speech as important predictors of processing duration. The correlation analysis alsoshowed significant correlations between the response times and both word and collocational frequency. Atentative mental lexicon framework is proposed based on the findings of this research.
AU  - CANGIR, HAKAN
AU  - DURRANT, Philip
AU  - BÜYÜKKANTARCIOĞLU, S. Nalan
PY  - 2017
JO  - Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
VL  - 13
IS  - 2
SN  - 1305-578X
SP  - 465
EP  - 486
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/293707
ER  -