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INSTITUTO DE PSICOLOGIA BASICA, APLICADA Y TECNOLOGIA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Core Semantic Links or Lexical Associations: Assessing the Nature of Responses in Word Association Tasks
Autor/es:
MANOILOFF, LAURA; VIVAS, JORGE; GARCÍA, ADOLFO M.; VIVAS, LETICIA; LIZARRALDE, FRANCISCO
Revista:
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Editorial:
Springer
Referencias:
Año: 2019 vol. 48 p. 243 - 256
ISSN:
0090-6905
Resumen:
The processes tapped by the widely-used word association (WA) paradigm remain a matterof debate: while some authors consider them as driven by lexical co-occurrences, othersemphasize the role of meaning-based connections. To test these contrastive hypotheses, weanalyzed responses in aWAtask in terms of their normative defining features (those describingthe object denoted by the cueword). Results indicate that 72.5% of the responses hadmediumto-high coincidence with such defining semantic features. Moreover, 75.51% of responseshad medium-to-high values of Relevance (a measure of the importance of the feature forconstruing a given concept). Furthermore, most responses (62.7%) referred to elements ofthe situation inwhich the concept usually appears, followed by sensory properties (e.g., color)of the denoted object (27.86%). These results suggest that the processes behind WA tasksinvolve a reactivation of the cue item?s semantic properties, particularly those most relevantto its core meaning.