1st Edition
Antonyms in Mind and Brain Evidence from English and German
By Sandra Kotzor
Copyright 2022
202 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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. Building on recent cognitive accounts of antonymy which highlight the fundamentally conceptual nature of antonymy, this book
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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
Biography
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.
