Good and bad opposites: using textual and experimental techniques to measure antonym canonicity
Paradis, Carita LU
; Willners, Caroline
LU
and Jones, Steven
(2009)
In The Mental Lexicon
p.380-429
- Abstract
- The goal of this paper is to combine corpus methodology with experimental
methods to gain insights into the nature of antonymy as a lexico-semantic relation
and the degree of antonymic canonicity of word pairs in language and in
memory. Two approaches to antonymy in language are contrasted, the lexical
categorical model and the cognitive prototype model. The results of the investigation
support the latter model and show that different pairings have different
levels of lexico-semantic affinity. At this general level of categorization, empirical
methods converge; however, since they measure slightly different aspect of lexico-
semantic opposability and affinity, and... (More) - The goal of this paper is to combine corpus methodology with experimental
methods to gain insights into the nature of antonymy as a lexico-semantic relation
and the degree of antonymic canonicity of word pairs in language and in
memory. Two approaches to antonymy in language are contrasted, the lexical
categorical model and the cognitive prototype model. The results of the investigation
support the latter model and show that different pairings have different
levels of lexico-semantic affinity. At this general level of categorization, empirical
methods converge; however, since they measure slightly different aspect of lexico-
semantic opposability and affinity, and since the techniques of investigation
are different in nature, we obtain slightly conflicting results at the more specific
levels. We conclude that some antonym pairs can be diagnosed as “canonical”
on the strength of three indicators: textual co-occurrence, individual judgement
about “goodness” of opposition, and elicitation evidence. (Less)
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- Paradis, Carita
LU
; Willners, Caroline
LU
and Jones, Steven
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- publishing date
- 2009
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- synonym, contrast, adjective, conventionalization, lexico-semantic relation, antonym, prototype, gradable
- in
- The Mental Lexicon
- pages
- 380 - 429
- publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- ISSN
- 1871-1340
- language
- English
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methods to gain insights into the nature of antonymy as a lexico-semantic relation<br/><br>
and the degree of antonymic canonicity of word pairs in language and in<br/><br>
memory. Two approaches to antonymy in language are contrasted, the lexical<br/><br>
categorical model and the cognitive prototype model. The results of the investigation<br/><br>
support the latter model and show that different pairings have different<br/><br>
levels of lexico-semantic affinity. At this general level of categorization, empirical<br/><br>
methods converge; however, since they measure slightly different aspect of lexico-<br/><br>
semantic opposability and affinity, and since the techniques of investigation<br/><br>
are different in nature, we obtain slightly conflicting results at the more specific<br/><br>
levels. We conclude that some antonym pairs can be diagnosed as “canonical”<br/><br>
on the strength of three indicators: textual co-occurrence, individual judgement<br/><br>
about “goodness” of opposition, and elicitation evidence.}},
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