5 - Research

Summary

This chapter analyzes the research data at several levels: (i) word-formation creativity and word-interpretation creativity; (ii) two age-based groups of respondents; (iii) separate evaluations with regard to the individual creativity indicators and subscores in order to find out whether they boost creativity and, if so, which of them does so; this question is examined with regard to (a) the low cohort (L-cohort) and the high cohort (H-cohort) as well as with regard to all respondents wherever applicable; (b) the individual evaluation parameters, that is, the naming strategies, reflected in the preference for economy of expression or semantic transparency, and the number of failed answers in the word-formation test; the Predictability Rate, the Objectified Predictability Rate; the average number of readings proposed by a cohort member; and hapax legomena in the interpretation test; (c) the individual experimental words; (iv) the two age groups of respondents; (v) the male and the female groups of respondents for each of the aforementioned criteria.