Accessing Words from the Mental Lexicon

Schiller, Niels O.; Verdonschot, Rinus G.

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“…We measured the subjects' naming latencies and ERP amplitudes when naming target pictures preceded by morphologically transparent related compounds, shortly after learning (Session 1) and two days later (Session 2). We replicated the morphological priming effect previously found by Zwitserlood et al (2000) in German, as well as Schiller (2008, 2011) and Verdonschot et al (2012) in Dutch and Lensink et al (2014) in English (L2), using familiar compound words in a similar protocol (see Schiller and Verdonschot, 2014 for an overview). Our mean RT differences between the unrelated and the related familiar condition (17 ms in session 1 and 20 ms in session 2) are in the same ballpark as the findings of Schiller (2008, 2011).…”

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Distinct morphological processing of recently learned compound words: An ERP study

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EEG Morphology N400Overt speech Priming a b s t r a c t Our vocabulary is, at least in principle, infinite. We can create new words combining existing ones in meaningful ways to form new linguistic expressions. The present study investigated the morphological processing of novel compound words in overt speech production. Native speakers of Dutch learned a series of new compounds (e.g. appelgezicht, 'apple-face') that were later used as primes in a morphological priming task. In this protocol, primes were compound words morphologically related to a target's picture name (e.g. appelgezicht was used for a picture of an apple, Dutch appel). The novel primes were compared with corresponding familiar compounds sharing a free morpheme (e.g. appelmoes, 'applesauce') and with unrelated compounds. Participants were required to read aloud words and to name pictures in a long-lag design. Behavioral and event-related potentials (ERPs) data were collected in two sessions, separated by 48 h. Clear facilitation of picture naming latencies was obtained when pictures were paired with morphological related words. Notably, our results show that novel compounds have a stronger priming effect than familiar compounds in both sessions, which is expressed in a marked reduction in target naming latencies and a decrease in the N400 amplitude. These results suggest that participants focused more on the separate constituents when reading novel primes than in the case of existing compounds.

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“…Therefore, the more frequently a word occurs, the more connections it has to other words in the mental lexicon (de Groot 1989;Steyvers and Tenenbaum 2005). Frequency can be argued to be one of the most important factors influencing the organization of the mental lexicon (Forster 1976), along with the individual's subjective familiarity with the presented lexical item (Harley 2014;Hallin and Van Lancker-Sidtis 2017).…”

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When Negative Turns out to Be Positive

Raet

2023

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on various aspects of society, including language and cognitive processes. This research investigates how the pandemic has influenced associations related to health-related words among 1,454 Estonian native speakers. Data collected between January and March 2023 were compared with a pre-pandemic dataset, the Dictionary of Estonian Word Associations (DEWA), compiled from 2016 to 2018. The study focuses on fifteen health-related cue words. The results revealed that five terms experienced significant changes in their association sequences concerning the COVID-19 crisis. Notably, among these 15 words, three stand out as the most significant cases where a change occurred in their primary responses: these typically exhibit the most robust and enduring associative links, making them less susceptible to change. This unveils shifts in the mental lexicon's representations and the evolving perceptions of specific words and concepts amidst the pandemic backdrop. These findings illustrate how unforeseen external disruptions, such as the COVID-19 crisis, can reconfigure the salience of certain concepts within language and cognition. This research contributes to our comprehension of the linguistic repercussions and potential language adaptations triggered by a health crisis. It also enriches the relatively understudied field of word association research, particularly in languages beyond the dominion of English.

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“…The mental lexicon is often taken to refer to the part of our language processing system that hosts the word forms we know and their corresponding meanings, that is, a neurocognitive version of a dictionary. The retrieval of lexical items from the mental lexicon is called lexical access (for an overview see Schiller & Verdonschot, 2015). The meaning component of a lexical item, including conceptual-semantic processing, precedes the encoding of its form, that is, morphological processing (see overviews in Schiller & Verdonschot, 2019;Schiller, 2020) and phonological-phonetic processing (or phonological encoding; see Schiller, 2006, for a review).…”

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Chapter 1. Models of language production and the temporal organization of lexical access

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Alario

2023

Bilingual Processing and Acquisition

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This chapter focusses on models of language production and the temporal organization of the processes involved in lexical access. Albert Costa contributed significantly to advancing our understanding of lexical access. Through the investigation of multilingual speakers, he added an important dimension to this discussion. Here, we provide a discussion of discrete and cascaded/interactive accounts of lexical access and summarize some of the crucial experimental evidence that has been offered for and against these different theories, roughly over the years when Albert contributed to these debates. We will also discuss whether or not lexical selection is competitive and what research on multilingual speech production contributed to our knowledge on lexical access. The discussion is mainly restricted to behavioral data, with some references to electrophysiological studies. We conclude that considering the experimental evidence a strict version of discrete processing models is difficult to maintain. Research on bilingual language production has made important contributions to the discussion, however, the picture is not yet complete.

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Accessing Words from the Mental Lexicon

Cited by 40 publications

References 89 publications

Distinct morphological processing of recently learned compound words: An ERP study

Distinct morphological processing of recently learned compound words: An ERP study

When Negative Turns out to Be Positive

Chapter 1. Models of language production and the temporal organization of lexical access

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