Lexical Understanding of Native Bahasa Indonesia Speakers through Word Association to Improve Dictionary Definitions

This study examined lexical cognitive word associations of Bahasa Indonesia native speakers. A word association task using 30 cue nouns was conducted with 45 educated adult native speakers of Bahasa Indonesia aged 20–29, after which the generated data was classified based on the extensive semantic t...

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Main Authors: Ami P. Jewalani, Myrna Laksman-Huntley, Harwintha Y. Anjarningsih
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Language:Afrikaans
Published: Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WAT 2019-11-01
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Online Access:https://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1511
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author Ami P. Jewalani
Myrna Laksman-Huntley
Harwintha Y. Anjarningsih
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description This study examined lexical cognitive word associations of Bahasa Indonesia native speakers. A word association task using 30 cue nouns was conducted with 45 educated adult native speakers of Bahasa Indonesia aged 20–29, after which the generated data was classified based on the extensive semantic taxonomy. It was found that most responses related to the cue words were associated with lexical features, followed by entity features, situation features, taxonomic category, and introspective features, all of which suggested that this group of Bahasa Indonesia speakers related words to other words that shared similar lexical features, and especially with words that usually come after the target words. It was also found that the participants rarely associated feelings to the cue words as there were very few introspective feature associations. While this was a limited study focused on a specific population and only used nouns, the results could be of assistance in developing dictionaries and thesauri, or could be used as preliminary data to build databases, such as WordNet in Bahasa Indonesia. As there have been few studies focused on Bahasa Indonesia word associations, this study could also be used for future comparative word association studies.
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spelling doaj.art-ecf7b5fd5ce04175b36d64c9b464d7c32022-12-22T00:40:56ZafrWoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WATLexikos1684-49042224-00392019-11-0129365410.5788/29-1-1511Lexical Understanding of Native Bahasa Indonesia Speakers through Word Association to Improve Dictionary DefinitionsAmi P. Jewalani0Myrna Laksman-Huntley1Harwintha Y. Anjarningsih2Universitas IndonesiaUniversitas IndonesiaUniversitas IndonesiaThis study examined lexical cognitive word associations of Bahasa Indonesia native speakers. A word association task using 30 cue nouns was conducted with 45 educated adult native speakers of Bahasa Indonesia aged 20–29, after which the generated data was classified based on the extensive semantic taxonomy. It was found that most responses related to the cue words were associated with lexical features, followed by entity features, situation features, taxonomic category, and introspective features, all of which suggested that this group of Bahasa Indonesia speakers related words to other words that shared similar lexical features, and especially with words that usually come after the target words. It was also found that the participants rarely associated feelings to the cue words as there were very few introspective feature associations. While this was a limited study focused on a specific population and only used nouns, the results could be of assistance in developing dictionaries and thesauri, or could be used as preliminary data to build databases, such as WordNet in Bahasa Indonesia. As there have been few studies focused on Bahasa Indonesia word associations, this study could also be used for future comparative word association studies.https://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1511word associationsemantic propertiesconceptual processingsemantic taxonomic codingbahasa indonesiacognitiondictionary definitionsword retrievallexical access
spellingShingle Ami P. Jewalani
Myrna Laksman-Huntley
Harwintha Y. Anjarningsih
Lexical Understanding of Native Bahasa Indonesia Speakers through Word Association to Improve Dictionary Definitions
Lexikos
word association
semantic properties
conceptual processing
semantic taxonomic coding
bahasa indonesia
cognition
dictionary definitions
word retrieval
lexical access
title Lexical Understanding of Native Bahasa Indonesia Speakers through Word Association to Improve Dictionary Definitions
title_full Lexical Understanding of Native Bahasa Indonesia Speakers through Word Association to Improve Dictionary Definitions
title_fullStr Lexical Understanding of Native Bahasa Indonesia Speakers through Word Association to Improve Dictionary Definitions
title_full_unstemmed Lexical Understanding of Native Bahasa Indonesia Speakers through Word Association to Improve Dictionary Definitions
title_short Lexical Understanding of Native Bahasa Indonesia Speakers through Word Association to Improve Dictionary Definitions
title_sort lexical understanding of native bahasa indonesia speakers through word association to improve dictionary definitions
topic word association
semantic properties
conceptual processing
semantic taxonomic coding
bahasa indonesia
cognition
dictionary definitions
word retrieval
lexical access
url https://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1511
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