Visual processing of Vietnamese compound words: A multivariate analysis using corpus linguistic and psycholinguistic paradigms

• Author / Creator

  Pham, Hien

• This dissertation investigates disyllabic compound words in Vietnamese, an isolating tone language, using corpus linguistics and psycholinguistic experimental paradigms. Chapter 2 reports the construction of two corpora and a database of wide range of lexical variables. Chapter 3 discusses a visual lexical decision experiment with Vietnamese speakers, and Chapter 4 details the results of a visual lexical naming experiment, again with Vietnamese speakers. This dissertation supports the psychological status of the word as a single whole in non-decompositional model for reading Vietnamese compounds. The dissertation also documents the advantages of working with behavioral data from a single-subject with wide range of items. Finally, this dissertation demonstrates the involvement of phonology in silent reading through an analysis of the effects of lexical tone in the visual lexical decision task.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Lexical naming
  • Compound processing
  • Lexical decision
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Vietnamese
  • Frequency
  • LSA
  • Production duration
  • Mutual information
  • Dispersion
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Naming latency
  • HAL

• Graduation date

  Fall 2014

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Doctor of Philosophy

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3BZ61F80

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.