🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

어휘 점화

Pronunciation / Transliteration: eohwi jeomhwa

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Lexical Priming/ˈlɛk.sɪ.kəl ˈpraɪ.mɪŋ/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"어휘 점화 효과는 인지 심리학에서 중요한 연구 주제입니다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A psycholinguistic phenomenon whereby the faster recognition or production of a word is facilitated by prior exposure to a semantically or morphologically related word.

    "The experiment demonstrated lexical priming when participants identified the word 'doctor' much faster after seeing the word 'nurse'."
  2. 2

    In corpus linguistics, the theory that every word is loaded with the cumulative effects of its previous contexts, determining its collocations, grammatical associations, and semantic preferences.

    "Lexical priming explains why certain verbs strongly tend to co-occur with specific prepositions in natural discourse."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'lexical', derived from the Ancient Greek lexis (word, speech) via Modern English vocabulary studies, and 'priming', originating from the psychological concept of preparing a response through prior exposure. It emerged prominently in late 20th-century psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics, notably popularized by linguist Michael Hoey to describe how words acquire contextual and grammatical associations through repeated use.

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🇫🇷French → English

amorçage lexical

Transliteration: /a.mɔʁ.saʒ lɛk.si.kal/

"L'expérience a mis en évidence le phénomène d'amorçage lexical."

🇩🇪German → English

lexikalisches Priming

Transliteration: /lɛksiˈkaːlɪʃəs ˈpʁaɪmɪŋ/

"Das lexikalische Priming beeinflusst die Reaktionszeit der Testpersonen."

🇮🇹Italian → English

innesco lessicale

Transliteration: /inˈnɛs.ko les.siˈka.le/

"Il concetto di innesco lessicale è fondamentale nella psicolinguistica."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

priming lexical

Transliteration: /ˈpɾaj.miŋ leksikˈal/

"El priming lexical acelera el reconocimiento de palabras relacionadas."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

priming lexical

Transliteration: /ˈpɾaj.mĩw leksikaɫ/

"O priming lexical é amplamente estudado na psicologia cognitiva."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

शब्दार्थ प्राइमिंग

Transliteration: shabdarth priming

"शब्दार्थ प्राइमिंग संज्ञानात्मक प्रक्रिया को प्रभावित करता है।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

词汇启动

Transliteration: cíhuì qǐdòng

"实验展示了词汇启动效应对语言处理的影响。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

어휘 점화

Transliteration: eohwi jeomhwa

"어휘 점화 효과는 인지 심리학에서 중요한 연구 주제입니다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

語彙プライミング

Transliteration: goi puraimingu

"語彙プライミングによって単語の認識速度が向上します。"

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