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oapen-20.500.12657-295452021-11-12T16:15:52Z The semantic transparency of English compound nouns Schäfer, Martin Linguistics Noun Semantics Synonym ring Transparency (linguistic) WordNet bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics What is semantic transparency, why is it important, and which factors play a role in its assessment? This work approaches these questions by investigating English compound nouns. The first part of the book gives an overview of semantic transparency in the analysis of compound nouns, discussing its role in models of morphological processing and differentiating it from related notions. After a chapter on the semantic analysis of complex nominals, it closes with a chapter on previous attempts to model semantic transparency. The second part introduces new empirical work on semantic transparency, introducing two different sets of statistical models for compound transparency. In particular, two semantic factors were explored: the semantic relations holding between compound constituents and the role of different readings of the constituents and the whole compound, operationalized in terms of meaning shifts and in terms of the distribution of specifc readings across constituent families. 2018-09-04 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:38 2020-04-01T12:31:46Z 2020-04-01T12:31:46Z 2018-01-22 book 1000391 OCN: 1051777829 2567-742X 9783961100309 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29545 eng Morphological Investigations application/pdf n/a 1000391.pdf Language Science Press 10.5281/zenodo.1134595 103533 10.5281/zenodo.1134595 0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783961100309 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 103533 Language Science Press 2018 - 2020 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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What is semantic transparency, why is it important, and which factors play a role in its assessment? This work approaches these questions by investigating English compound nouns. The first part of the book gives an overview of semantic transparency in the analysis of compound nouns, discussing its role in models of morphological processing and differentiating it from related notions. After a chapter on the semantic analysis of complex nominals, it closes with a chapter on previous attempts to model semantic transparency. The second part introduces new empirical work on semantic transparency, introducing two different sets of statistical models for compound transparency. In particular, two semantic factors were explored: the semantic relations holding between compound constituents and the role of different readings of the constituents and the whole compound, operationalized in terms of meaning shifts and in terms of the distribution of specifc readings across constituent families.
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