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In this seminar we will study the processing and comprehension of combined concepts in the conceptual system (and their lexical labels in the form of compound words in the language system) from a psycholinguistic perspective and with respect to their relevance for the mental lexicon. Different approaches will be examined such as the schema modification theory of Murphy (1988, 1990), the dual access theory of Wisniewski (1996, 1997) and the relation-based theories of Gagné and Shoben (1997), Gagné (2000, 2001, 2002 ), Spalding et al. (2010), etc. These theories offer competing views about how conceptual combinations are interpreted and how the combined concepts are altered and elaborated in the combination process with respect to the uncombined head concept. Furthermore, the question will be asked whether these theories can accommodate both novel and familiar/lexicalized compounds. |
