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Representational Complexity and Memory Retrieval in Language Comprehension
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Hofmeister, Philip – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
Mental representations formed from words or phrases may vary considerably in their feature-based complexity. Modern theories of retrieval in sentence comprehension do not indicate how this variation and the role of encoding processes should influence memory performance. Here, memory retrieval in language comprehension is shown to be influenced by…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Memory
Cascaded Processing in Written Naming: Evidence from the Picture-Picture Interference Paradigm
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Roux, Sebastien; Bonin, Patrick – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
The issue of how information flows within the lexical system in written naming was investigated in five experiments. In Experiment 1, participants named target pictures that were accompanied by context pictures having phonologically and orthographically related or unrelated names (e.g., a picture of a "ball" superimposed on a picture of…
Descriptors: Phonology, Cognitive Processes, Recognition (Psychology), Interference (Language)
Naming Action in Japanese: Effects of Semantic Similarity and Grammatical Class
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Iwasaki, Noriko; Vinson, David P.; Vigliocco, Gabriella; Watanabe, Masumi; Arciuli, Joanne – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
This study investigated whether the semantic similarity and grammatical class of distracter words affects the naming of pictured actions (verbs) in Japanese. Three experiments used the picture-word interference paradigm with participants naming picturable actions while ignoring distracters. In all three experiments, we manipulated the semantic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Interference (Language), Nouns
A Further Look at Semantic Context Effects in Language Production: The Role of Response Congruency
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Kuipers, Jan-Rouke; La Heij, Wido; Costa, Albert – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
Most current models of speech production predict interference from related context words in picture-naming tasks. However, Glaser and Dungelhoff (1984) reported semantic facilitation when the task was changed from basic-level naming to category-level naming. The authors explore two proposals to account for this change in polarity of the semantic…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Semantics, Speech, Context Effect
Morphological Effects on Speech Production: Evidence from Picture Naming.
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Zwitserlood, Pienie; Bolte, Jens; Dohmes, Petra – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2000
Investigated the influence of morphologically complex and simple words on the production of morphologically complex and simple picture names in five picture-word interference studies. Two variants of picture-word interference were employed to separate morphological from semantic and phonological effects. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Interference (Language), Language Processing, Morphology (Languages)
The Production of Pronominal Clitics: Implications for Theories of Lexical Access
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Finocchiaro, Chiara; Caramazza, Alfonso – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
In three experiments we investigated the locus of the frequency effect in lexical access and the mechanism of gender feature selection. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to produce gender-marked verb plus pronominal clitic utterances in Italian (e.g., "portalo" (bring it [masculine]) in response to a written verb and pictured object. We…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semantics, Grammar, Word Frequency