Les associations évoquées par les mots : collecte, analyse, exploitation

Abstract

The paper presents dictionaries of words associations, which are not frequently discussed in French linguistics. We introduce the base principles of word associations lexicology and the methodology used to build such dictionaries, then the results and their exploitation are explained. Those dictionaries are formed on psycholinguistic experiments where the first response to a given stimulus is fixed. There are two forms of dictionaries - the direct one, presenting the stimulus and all the obtained reactions in decreasing order of frequency, and the reverse one, where one can see every obtained reaction and all the stimuli that evoked it. Several experiments carried out over the past 15 years allow to present diatopic and diachronic variations in associative norms of French language.

Keywords

• French language
• word associations
• diachrony
• psycholinguistics
• dictionary