A TIME-COURSE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE RECOGNITION PROCESSES OF FORMAL AND SEMANTIC NEOLOGICAL USES

The aim of this work is to look into the distinction between formal neology and semantic neology through an experimental approach based on the recording of lexical decision times. For that purpose, we have taken as a reference a set of contextualized neological uses, which represent the main manifestations of both types. The results of this study not only allow us to verify the implications of different cognitive strategies that affect the way of processing, but also help us to draw a general time-course map which reflects the reconstructing processes of the semantic and formal structure of the word.