Motivational networks
An empirically supported cognitive phenomenon
- Author(s): Birgit Umbreit 1
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- Source: Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon , pp 269-286
- Publication Date June 2011
The notion motivational network is proposed to describe the existence of various possibilities of motivation for a given form. As shown in questionnaire studies, this phenomenon is quite common for non-linguist native speakers. But the notion of motivational network is also justified from a cognitive perspective: in the mental lexicon, words in a word family are structured as multidirectional networks, resulting in the co-activation of all family members. Thus, the coexistence of various equally salient motivational partners should not be regarded as exceptional but rather as the default case in lexical motivation.
- Affiliations: 1: University of Stuttgart
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