Legos lingüísticos: una descripción de los compuestos sintagmáticos españoles en tres cuerpos mexicanos de la tarea de disponibilidad léxica
Linguistic Legos: a Description of Spanish Syntagmatic Compounds in Three Mexican Corpora of Lexical Availability Task release_dkbm7co5ejabbodje4qam7mcwe

by Marco Antonio Pérez Durán, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades / Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Gabriela Silva-Maceda, Facultad de Psicología / Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí

Published in Sincronía by Universidad de Guadalajara.

2022   Volume XXVI, Issue 82, p750-775

Abstract

Syntagmatic compounds are a type of morphological compound that contributes to the increase of a learner's vocabulary. They are created when two or more lexemes join to form a new word. Considering they could have wide pedagogic implications due to the multiple combination possibilities from a single base, this analysis intends to describe the frequency and classification of syntagmatic compounds as well as their bases in three Mexican corpora of Lexical Availability Task of students from different times, regions and education levels. It also aims to describe the relationship between bases and lexical items to examine whether a few of the bases are needed for many of syntagmatic compounds found in Spanish. Results showed that syntagmatic compound are quite available (from 10% to 31% of total lexical items). Within the classification of these compounds, the most common were the prepositional ones. It was also found that only 50 bases are needed to form more than a third of the compounds found in the lexical availability responses. A list of the top 20 bases is presented for its use among the teaching of Spanish as a second language. It is proposed that since studying a small quantity of words can enable learners to build a great number of compounds, they could be conceptualized as linguistic legos.
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