Cognitive Processes in Information Retrieval: Production Rules and Lexical Nets

Wettler, Manfred; Glöckner-Rist, Angelika

doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-88602-6.50017-7

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“…However, there is evidence that priming between words that are strongly associated may differ from that between words that share a similar semantic relation but no associative strength, at least when these words are presented in isolation (Chiarello, Burgess, Richards, & Pollack, 1990; Lupker, 1984; Tanenhaus & Lucas, 1987). It is possible that the frequent co-occurrence of associated words in the language (Spence & Owens, 1990; Wettler, Terber, Rapp, & Hagen, 1992) leads to facilitatory connections building up between form-level lexical representations. Associative priming may be supported by an automatic spread of activation along these links rather than mediated by access to the lexical semantics of either prime or target (Tanenhaus & Lucas, 1987).…”

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Access to word meanings during spoken language comprehension: Effects of sentential semantic context.

Moss¹,

Marslen–Wilson²

1993

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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In 3 cross-modal priming experiments, we investigated whether access to a word's meaning is affected by the semantic context in which it is heard or is exhaustive and context-independent. We probed access of nonassociated semantic properties and normatively associated words before and after prime offset. Whereas associated targets were primed context-independently, access to semantic property targets was affected by the sentential context. Semantic property targets showed greater priming in a sentence biasing to a specific semantic property than in a neutral condition, even when this bias made the target property irrelevant rather than relevant. These results cannot be accounted for by current exhaustive access or context-dependency theories of lexical access.

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