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The pseudo partner experiment was developed to investigate the mental representation of formal properties of Russian aspectual pairs. Participants were confronted with 25 existing Russian verbs and 25 invented pseudo verbs of different morphemic types (base form, prefixed form, po-prefixed form, prefixed and suffixed form, nu-suffixed form), e.g. *zurat’. Each stimulus was presented visually on a computer screen. Participants were asked to 1) read the word or pseudo word aloud 2) determine the verb’s aspectual subcategory (pf. or ipf.), in case of the pseudo verbs based on their linguistic intuition and 3) naming the stimulus’ aspectual partner, respectively, in case of the pseudo verbs forming an appropriate partner by manipulating the stimulus. Both reactions to words and pseudo words were analyzed, but given the fact that aspectual pairs for existing Russian verbs are certain, reactions to pseudo words are much more interesting and therefore in the focus of this investigation. The participants’ aspectual classifications of the stimuli and their pseudo partner proposals were analyzed regarding their appropriateness. What is appropriate, of course, differs among morphemic types, so for each morphemic type specific hypotheses were formulated, based on a corpus analysis of 500 Russian verbs. Furthermore, partner proposals were examined with respect to the type of manipulation, e.g. taking a prefix off, adding a prefix, adding a suffix et cetera. This file contains some extracted data from the file data_Pseudopartnerexperiment_60participants.csv. I have provided them additionally because I refer to them in a separate chapter of my book (4.2.4.10 Probanden- und Itemanalyse). While the mentioned file (data_Pseudopartnerexperiment_60participants.csv) provides raw data, the information given by this additional file is based on the analysis and interpretation of the raw data. Its purpose is to ensure that the main tendencies resulting from the data analysis are not influenced by a minority of participants or items. Checking this question separately is necessary because it is not taken into account by the applied statistical method itself (chi-square-test). The first five sheets (P_) contain information on the number of participants who have made use, at least once, of the main procedures of generating an aspectual pseudo partner. Participants are counted separately for each of the five main procedures (1. taking a prefix off, 2. adding a prefix, 3. adding a suffix, 4. breaking a suffix off and 5. changing a suffix) resulting in five lists of different lengths. The sheets 6-11 (I_) take the opposite perspective. For each item (in column A, stem ID in column B) used in the experiment the table shows how often each procedure of generating an aspectual pseudo partner (columns C-L) was chosen by the participants. Column M gives the total number of analyzed reactions. Column N gives the percentage of the taking off/adding a prefix procedures, because manipulating a prefix was found to be an unexpectedly popular procedure applied by the participants for the purpose of generating an aspectual pair with given pseudo verbs. There are separate sheets for each morphemic type (absolute simplicia, prefixed form, po-prefixed form, prefixed and suffixed form, nu-suffixed form, total).
Pseudo partner experiment