Antonyms in Mind and Brain

ISBN-13: 9781032149592 / Miękka / 2023 / 184 str.

Sandra Kotzor

Opis

Antonyms in Mind and Brain presents a multi-method empirical investigation of opposition with a particular focus on the processing of opposite pairs and their representation in the mental lexicon.

Spis treści

PART I Theoretical foundations

1. Introduction

2. Previous perspectives on antonymy

PART II Empirical investigation

3. Antonymic and associative strength: evidence from English and German

4. Processing opposite pairs: an antonym-decision task

5. Case studies

PART III Theoretical implications

6. Antonyms in mind and brain: towards a psycholinguistic model of opposition

7. Conclusions

O autorze

Sandra Kotzor is a Senior Researcher in the Language and Brain Laboratory at the University of Oxford and Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Oxford Brookes University.