How do Native Speakers of Bahasa Indonesia
Think of Words?:
Cognition
Revelation through Words Association
Ami Pramesti
Jewalani
Department of Linguistics, Faculty of
Humanities
Universitas Indonesia
ami.pramesti@ui.ac.id
Myrna
Laksman-Huntley
Department of Linguistics, Faculty of
Humanities
Universitas Indonesia
laksman@ui.ac.id
Harwintha Yuhria Anjarningsih
Department of Linguistics, Faculty of
Humanities
Universitas Indonesia
harwintha@ui.ac.id
Abstract
This present study discusses how Indonesian words
are related to other words in Indonesian speakers’ cognition. The data is
obtained by conducting word association task involving Indonesian adult native speakers as
participants. Using nouns as the cue words, the generated data is then
classified into categories applying semantic taxonomic encoding used previously
by De Deyne and Storms (2008) because it allows any words to be related to
other words in many ways. The study shows that the responses relate to the cue
words mostly by their lexical features, followed by entity features, situation
features, taxonomic category, and the least by introspective features. This
suggests that Indonesian speakers relate a word mostly to words that share the
properties of lexical features, especially words that are usually come after
the target words. Moreover, it is also revealed that feeling is rarely attached
to a word as words related to the target
word by introspective features are in small amount compare to other features.
The result of this study is expected to be an assistance in developing
dictionaries and thesauri, or to be the preliminary data to build databases
such as Wordnet in Bahasa Indonesia.
Keywords: Word association;
semantic properties; conceptual processing, semantic taxonomic coding, Bahasa
Indonesia
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