Meaning Beyond Lexicality: Capturing Pseudoword Definitions with Language Models

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<p>Pseudowords such as “knackets” or “spechy” – letter strings that are consistent with the orthotactical rules of a language but do not appear in its lexicon – are traditionally considered to be meaningless, and employed as such in empirical studies. However, recent studies that show specific semantic patterns associated to these words as well as semantic effects on human pseudoword processing have cast doubt on...

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• Auditory Perception
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• Models, Psychological
• Semantics
• Visual Perception

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b1be9ed4-154f-588a-8ccf-017c05694260

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10.31234/osf.io/5nvwp