A thesis
for the degree of Master of Science with the tittle “The Interaction of Suffixation
with Synonymy and Antonymy” by Laura L. Sabourin from University of Alberta.
There is 93 pages in this thesis that talk about branches of semantic,especially
in synonymy and antonymy.
This thesis
tells us the interaction of suffixation with synonymy and antonymy in the study
of semantic.it helps us to know more about terms that is in semantics.
Method used
in this thesis are Participant,Materials and Procedure.
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Abstract
This thesis reports on two
psycholinguistic experiments that explore the question of how synonyms and
antonyms are linked in the Mental Lexicon. The experirnental results confirm
theoretical expectations that synonymic and antonymic links are fundamental
cognitive relations among lexical items.
The results also suggest that
the nature of these relations may not be identical because it was found that
synonymic and antonymic pairs behaved differently in the two experirnental
paradigms and that they also showed differences in the way they interacted when
suffixation was added as a factor. The relevance of these findings to methodological
issues in psycholinguistic experimentation is discussed and the implications
for further research are outlined.
Content
In this chapter a description
of the semantic relations of synonymy and antonymy was provided. The sub-types
of the relations were outlined and examples of each were given. The section on
synonymy and antonymy was concluded by introducing some of the studies in the literature
that have focused on these relations.
In general, there is a lack of
processing studies that directly compare the on-he processing of synonyms and
antonyrns. Possible effects of suffixation on synonymic and antonymic pairs
were discussed and the need for an investigation of semantic relations
controling for suffixation was expressed.
In addition, the criteria
used to establish suffixation as a control factor for these experiments is discussed,
and the off-line rating pretest used to finalize target stimulus pairs is also
described.
Resource : http://christysitorus21.blogspot.co.id/2016/05/the-branches-of-semantics-antonym.html
https://www.slideshare.net/Andriyanieka12/13-semantics-synonym-antonym-homonym-hyponym-polyseme-idioms-18509523?next_slideshow=1
