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LANGUAGE AS A SYSTEM OF GROUNDED SYMBOLS: RELATIONS BETWEEN LINGUISTIC AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCES

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Raczaszek-Leonardi J.
Kolokwia Psychologiczne (Psychological Colloquia)
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2006
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vol. 15
49-60
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The following article is an attempt to understand crucial notions for modern psycholinguistics (and thus also for works of Kurcz 2000, 2005) of 'linguistic competence' and 'communicative competence' in the light of relatively new theories of grounding and embodiment of linguistic symbols. This perspective allows for seeing the independence of the two competences in a new light. Grounding and embodiment of linguistic symbols also enables seeing the characteristic features of language (systematicity and compositionality) as stemming from communicative competence and not only - as often thought - from linguistic. Although it is possible that language learning based solely on the latter competence could lead to a communicative system, it is suggested that such a system would be characterized by a rigid, inflexible semantics.
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THE EFFECTS OF SELECTED WORD PROPERTIES ON VISUAL RECOGNITION TIME: FREQUENCY OF OCCURRENCE, LENGTH, AND PRESENCE OF DIGRAPHS

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Raczaszek-Leonardi J., Jarymowicz K.
Psychological Studies
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2006
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vol. 44
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issue 4
79-87
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The study aimed at evaluating the effect of various parameters of words on the speed of visual word recognition in Polish. Simple Lexical Decision task was used. Words were selected from classes of different frequency of occurrence (low, medium, high frequency), length (4,6,8 and 10-letter words) and presence of digraphs (present or not). A main effect of word frequency was obtained, however what is more interesting, there was a significant interaction of frequency and length effects, i.e., frequency mattered more for short than for longer words. There was also a significant interaction effect of frequency and the presence of digraphs: frequency mattered more for words with digraphs than for words without digraphs. The results are important for selecting verbal stimuli for various types of research that use visual word recognition. Controlling frequency seems to be most important for short words, controlling for length seems most important when dealing with frequent words. One of the possible mechanisms explaining the pattern found in data is the orthographic 'crowding' around short words which makes neighbors of less frequent short words inhibit their activation. Further research, preferably using correlational design, will be performed to test this hypothesis.
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