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SEMANTIC FLUENCY TASK WITH DIFFERENT SEMANTIC CATEGORIES: FACTORS OF FULFILMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF GENERALITY OF THE SEARCH MODEL

A. Grigorjev, E. Lapteva

SEMANTIC FLUENCY TASK WITH DIFFERENT SEMANTIC CATEGORIES: FACTORS OF FULFILMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF GENERALITY OF THE SEARCH MODEL

 

In the article, the results of the study of the role of the psycholinguistic variables (age of word acquisition, word frequency, word imageability and object familiarity) as factors of fulfillment of semantic fluency task, in which objects belonging to a semantic category are generated during certain time, and of estimating of generality of the model of information search when this task is fulfilled, which was tested by other researchers on few categories, are presented. These results are as follows. (1) It has been shown, that more early acquired, more frequent, imageable and familiar category members are generated more often in semantic fluency task. (2) We failed to reveal contribution of psycholinguistic variables over and above the degree of category clustering into the prediction of category potency (an average number of category members generated in fulfillment of category fluency task). This result can be explained by small sample of categories, which is due to the fact that only for few categories the necessary data were available, and by strong correlation of potency and the degree of category clustering. (3) By means of analysis of individual data about numbers of generated members for each category, an evidence for generality of the model of information search when semantic fluency task is fulfilled, which has was tested on few semantic categories, has been obtained.

Keywords: semantic fluency, psycholinguistic variables, semantic categories, category norms, information search.

 

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