On dependence of polymotivation of the derivative on efficiency of the word-building type (on the material of a psycholinguistic experiment)

The article develops the idea of the systemic nature of polymotivation. Polymotivation is seen as a strategy of speech activity of subjects which is aimed at disclosure of the semantic potential of the derived word. This strategy is realized through the replacement of an initial derivative with a set of other words which can enter both one and several judgments. It is noted that the nature of speech activity directed on the disclosure of the semantic potential of the derivative word depends on the main and accompanying determinant. The structural determinant is allocated as one of accompanying determinants. Studying this determinant allowed making an assumption of the dependence of native speakers' speech activity on the properties of a derivative structure. Research is conducted on the material of a psycholinguistic experiment whose purpose was to determine the dependence of features of Russian native speakers' speech activity on structural characteristics of derivative word stimuli. Five derivatives (krasnogolovnik, medunitsa, devyatilnik, rekostav and sverbiguz) offered to informants as word stimuli have different structural properties which can promote the choice of the strategy of disclosure of a language image of the cognizable word. In the article such a structural characteristic of the derivative as specifics of the word- building type this derivative belongs to is considered. Results of the research show that characteristics of the word-building type the derivative belongs to (especially its system efficiency) and the place of the derivative unit in the structure of the word-building type (belonging to the central or peripheral semantic theme) influence the actualization of polymotivation when identifying derivatives, i.e. the possibility of identification and intensive comprehension of the referential part of the derivative word. Thus, if the word-formation type the derivative belongs to is systemically productive, and the language sign formed by its model belongs to the central semantic theme, these characteristics promote conscious perception of the word-building structure of the derivative. Respectively, in the course of identification of such a derivative the possibility of polymotivation use as the main speech strategy increases.

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