AbstractIt is generally assumed that, within an inflectional paradigm, some forms are cognitively more salient than others. Although this effect is the result of various concomitant factors to which all forms of the given paradigm concur, the existence of salient forms is crucial to assist the speaker in predicting the remaining forms of the paradigm. The notion of ‘salient form(s)’ was implicit in the so-called Kennform(en) proposed by Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel as inflectional class marker(s). A possible candidate to salience is the so-called citation-form, i.e. the form by means of which lexemes are referred to in a dictionary, but this should be checked on a language-by-language basis. The present paper addresses the task of defining the most salient form(s) within the Italian verb paradigm. By means of three lexical decision experiments, the performance on the Infinitive (the citation-form) was compared with the performance on its most likely competitors, i.e. the Present Indicative 3SG, which is the most frequent form of most verbs, and the Present Indicative 1SG, which is selected as citation-form in some lexicographic traditions. The results indicate that the Infinitive and the Present Indicative 3SG prevail over the Present Indicative 1SG – as well as on various other forms used as controls and fillers in the experiments – but do not differ from each other. This offers an interesting insight into the organization of a complex verb paradigm, such as the Italian one. In particular, it shows that salience depends on the interaction of various morphological and psycholinguistic factors, whose relative weight is a function of the specific language considered.

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寻找意大利动词范式的 Kennformen。一项实验研究

摘要一般认为，在屈折范式中，某些形式在认知上比其他形式更突出。尽管这种效果是给定范式的所有形式都一致的各种伴随因素的结果，但显着形式的存在对于帮助说话者预测范式的其余形式至关重要。“显着形式”的概念隐含在 Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel 提出的所谓的 Kennform(en) 作为屈折类标记。一个可能的显着性候选者是所谓的引文形式，即在字典中引用词位的形式，但这应该在逐个语言的基础上进行检查。本论文解决了在意大利动词范式中定义最显着形式的任务。通过三个词汇决策实验，将不定式（引文形式）的表现与其最有可能的竞争对手的表现进行比较，即现在指示式 3SG，它是大多数动词中最常见的形式，以及现在指示式 1SG，它被选为引文-在某些词典学传统中形成。结果表明，不定式和现在指示式 3SG 优于现在指示式 1SG——以及在实验中用作对照和填充的各种其他形式——但彼此没有区别。这为复杂动词范式的组织提供了一个有趣的见解，例如意大利语范式。特别是，它表明显着性取决于各种形态学和心理语言学因素的相互作用，其相对权重是所考虑的特定语言的函数。