The processing advantage and disadvantage for homophones in lexical decision tasks.

Hino, Yasushi; Kusunose, Yuu; Lupker, Stephen J.; Jared, Debra

doi:10.1037/a0029122

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“…For example, homophone effects have been observed for Kanji words in lexical decision studies (Hino, Kusunose, Lupker, & Jared, 2013;Tamaoka, 2007) and in category decision studies (Morita & Saito, 2007;Sakuma, Sasanuma, Tatsumi, & Masaki, 1998;Wydell, Patterson, & Humphreys, 1993). The evidence is mixed regarding whether phonological priming occurs when both primes and targets are in Kanji.…”

Section: Japanese Kanjimentioning

confidence: 93%

Cross-script phonological priming with Japanese Kanji primes and English targets

Ando

Jared

Nakayama

et al. 2014

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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Two experiments investigated whether Japanese-English bilinguals have integrated phonological stores for their two languages using a masked phonological priming task with Japanese Kanji (logographic) primes and English targets. In both experiments, lexical decisions for English target words were facilitated by phonologically similar Kanji primes. Furthermore, the size of the phonological priming effect was uninfluenced by the participants' English proficiency or target word frequency, which suggests that the priming effect arose from feedback from sublexical phonological representations to lexical orthographic representations. Because of the orthographic and phonological differences between Japanese and English, these findings provide particularly strong support for the Bilingual Interactive Activation (BIA+) model's assumption that representations are integrated across languages.

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Section: Japanese Kanjimentioning

confidence: 93%

Cross-script phonological priming with Japanese Kanji primes and English targets

Ando

Jared

Nakayama

et al. 2014

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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“…This view has been seriously challenged in the last 15 years. Today’s debate lies not in the question of whether phonological information is retrieved but how and when, i.e., whether phonological information is retrieved pre-lexically or only once a stored lexical form has been activated on the basis of orthography, thus giving rise to stored phonological information (for recent reviews see Van Orden and Kloos, 2005; Hino et al, 2013). …”

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Phonological and orthographic cues enhance the processing of inflectional morphology. ERP evidence from L1 and L2 French

Carrasco-Ortíz

Frenck-Mestre

2014

Front. Psychol.

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We report the results of two event-related potential (ERP) experiments in which Spanish learners of French and native French controls show graded sensitivity to verbal inflectional errors as a function of the presence of orthographic and/or phonological cues when reading silently in French. In both experiments, verbal agreement was manipulated in sentential context such that subject verb agreement was either correct, ill-formed and orally realized, involving both orthographic and phonological cues, or ill-formed and silent which involved only orthographic cues. The results of both experiments revealed more robust ERP responses to orally realized than to silent inflectional errors. This was true for L2 learners as well as native controls, although the effect in the learner group was reduced in comparison to the native group. In addition, the combined influence of phonological and orthographic cues led to the largest differences between syntactic/phonological conditions. Overall, the results suggest that the presence of phonological cues may enhance L2 readers’ sensitivity to morphology but that such may appear in L2 processing only when sufficient proficiency is attained. Moreover, both orthographic and phonological cues are used when available.

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“…a Hino et al (2013) further suggested that the logographic/alphabetic distinction may have led to a homophone disadvantage effect in an alphabetically scripted language but a homophone advantage effect in a logographically scripted language.…”

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“…The present study investigates how the meanings associated with an ambiguous word are accessed in sentential contexts, taking into consideration the relatedness among an ambiguous word's meanings. The target language of this investigation is Mandarin Chinese, whose logographic writing system presents a more direct relation between orthography and meaning than alphabetic languages (Hino et al 2013;Zhou and Marslen-Wilson 2000).…”

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Exhaustive semantic activation for reading ambiguous verbs in Chinese sentences

Lin

Chen

2015

lingua. sin.

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Studies of lexical ambiguity resolution in sentential contexts have not sufficiently considered the relatedness among an ambiguous word's meanings as a predicting factor for semantic activation. To better understand the relation between lexical access and discourse processing and the effect of semantic relatedness on lexical ambiguity resolution, a cross-modal lexical priming experiment focusing on Mandarin ambiguous verbs of varying degrees of semantic relatedness was conducted. The results indicated that both meanings of an ambiguous verb were activated regardless of contextual biases and the degrees of semantic relatedness between the associated meanings. Taken together with previous research, the present study suggests that the meanings of an ambiguous word (i.e., homophonic homographs, which share both phonological and orthographic representations) are co-activated exhaustively if they are syntactically licensed by the context. These results thus support the exhaustive semantic activation model of lexical ambiguity resolution and the syntax-first theory of sentence processing.

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The processing advantage and disadvantage for homophones in lexical decision tasks.

Cited by 23 publications

References 51 publications

Cross-script phonological priming with Japanese Kanji primes and English targets

Cross-script phonological priming with Japanese Kanji primes and English targets

Phonological and orthographic cues enhance the processing of inflectional morphology. ERP evidence from L1 and L2 French

Exhaustive semantic activation for reading ambiguous verbs in Chinese sentences

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