The ageing neighbourhood: phonological density in naming

Gordon, Jean; Kurczek, Jake

doi:10.1080/01690965.2013.837495

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“…Consistent with this idea, we know of no study on healthy college-aged English-speaking adults that have found inhibitory effects for PND on speech onset latencies. All previous studies on this population have either found facilitatory effects (current study, Vitevitch, 2002; Vitevitch & Sommers, 2003) or null effects (Gordon & Kurczek, 2014; Munson, 2007; Newman & Bernsetin Ratner, 2007; Vitevitch, Armbrüster, & Chu, 2004). In contrast, the studies conducted by Sadat et al (2014)—including reanalyses of additional studies on Spanish (Baus, Costa, & Carreiras, 2008; Pérez, 2007)—either returned inhibitory effects of PND on healthy college-aged Spanish-speaking adults (see also Vitevitch & Stamer, 2006) or null results.…”

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The (in)dependence of articulation and lexical planning during isolated word production

Buz

Jaeger

2015

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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The number of phonological neighbors to a word (PND) can affect its lexical planning and pronunciation. Similar parallel effects on planning and articulation have been observed for other lexical variables, such as a word’s contextual predictability. Such parallelism is frequently taken to indicate that effects on articulation are mediated by effects on the time course of lexical planning. We test this mediation assumption for PND and find it unsupported. In a picture naming experiment, we measure speech onset latencies (planning), word durations, and vowel dispersion (articulation). We find that PND predicts both latencies and durations. Further, latencies predict durations. However, the effects of PND and latency on duration are independent: parallel effects do not imply mediation. We discuss the consequences for accounts of lexical planning, articulation, and the link between them. In particular, our results suggest that ease of planning does not explain effects of PND on articulation.

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The (in)dependence of articulation and lexical planning during isolated word production

Buz

Jaeger

2015

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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“…For now and with the current data, we cannot unequivocally discard this possibility. One challenge to this account follows from the observation that in monolingual speech production phonological similarity among words has been shown to slow down lexical retrieval (e.g., Gordon & Kurczek, 2013; Sadat et al, 2014; see also Chan & Vitevitch, 2010, for slowing due to words with a rich neighborhood network; but see Vitevitch, 2002). Based on the assumption that such slowing is due to competitive processes and applying this logic to bilinguals, this would entail that phonologically highly similar translations should be detrimental to bilingual speech production.…”

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Breaking Down the Bilingual Cost in Speech Production

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Bilinguals have been shown to perform worse than monolinguals in a variety of verbal tasks. The current study investigated this bilingual verbal cost in a large-scale picture naming study conducted in Spanish. We explored how individual characteristics of the participants and the linguistic properties of the words being spoken influence this performance cost. In particular, we focused on the contributions of lexical frequency and phonological similarity across translations. The naming performance of Spanish-Catalan bilinguals speaking in their dominant and non-dominant language was compared to that of Spanish monolinguals. Single trial naming latencies were analyzed by means of linear mixed models accounting for individual effects at the participant and item level. While decreasing lexical frequency was shown to increase naming latencies in all groups, this variable by itself did not account for the bilingual cost. In turn, our results showed that the bilingual cost disappeared when naming words with high phonological similarity across translations. In short, our results show that frequency of use can play a role in the emergence of the bilingual cost, but that phonological similarity across translations should be regarded as one of the most important variables that determine the bilingual cost in speech production. Low phonological similarity across translations yields worse performance in bilinguals and promotes the bilingual cost in naming performance. The implications of our results for the effect of phonological similarity across translations within the bilingual speech production system are discussed.

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“…Empirical evidences have demonstrated that normal aging weakens not only top-down activation from semantics to phonology, but also bottom-up activation from phonology to semantics (Robert and Mathey, 2007;Robert and Duarte, 2016). Gordon and Kurczek (2014) reported that the effect of phonological neighborhood density on word production was facilitative in young adults but inhibitive in older adults, which suggests that there is an age-related decline in the activation transmission from shared phonemes to related lexical nodes (i.e., semantics). TOTs are usually accompanied with persistent alternatives (Burke et al, 1991;Heine et al, 1999;Kornell and Metcalfe, 2006), but the number of alternatives tends to be fewer for older adults because the bottom-up priming to the lexical nodes of alternates is decreased (Burke et al, 1991).…”

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Aging Effects on Phonological and Semantic Priming in the Tip-of-the-Tongue: Evidence From a Two-Step Approach

2020

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The mechanism underlying the age difference in spoken word production remains controversial. We used a two-step approach proposed by Gollan and Brown (2006) to investigate the semantic and phonological retrieval deficits when tip-of-the-tongue occurs in young and older adults. Importantly, we controlled the inhibition ability in both older and young groups. In experiment 1 with a people pictures naming task, older adults produced more TOTs than young adults, and they suffered from phonological retrieval deficit rather than semantic retrieval deficit in speaking. In experiment 2 with a priming paradigm, participants were presented semantically related or phonologically related names before target pictures, which formed semantic or phonological priming conditions for lexical access. Compared with young adults, older adults showed a greater effect of phonological priming on decreasing TOTs occurrence. For semantic retrieval deficit, older adults exhibited a smaller phonological facilitation effect and a larger semantic interference effect than young adults. For phonological retrieval deficit, older adults presented a larger phonological facilitation effect in the first-name related priming condition than the first-syllable related priming condition, whereas young adults showed similar facilitation effects between the two phonological priming conditions. Our findings provide consistent evidence for the transmission deficit hypothesis, and highlight that aging affects bidirectional connections between semantic and phonological nodes in speech production.

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The ageing neighbourhood: phonological density in naming

Cited by 34 publications

References 69 publications

The (in)dependence of articulation and lexical planning during isolated word production

The (in)dependence of articulation and lexical planning during isolated word production

Breaking Down the Bilingual Cost in Speech Production

Aging Effects on Phonological and Semantic Priming in the Tip-of-the-Tongue: Evidence From a Two-Step Approach

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