The role of phonological and orthographic information in lexical selection

Alario, F.‐Xavier; Schiller, Niels O.; Domoto‐Reilly, Kimiko; Caramazza, Alfonso

doi:10.1016/s0093-934x(02)00556-4

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“…Relatedly, Miceli et al (1999) showed that semantic errors of aphasic patients could influenced by recently produced words in the same (oral) or different (written) modality. This finding indicates that word retrieval processes may be constrained by previously activated form information (phonological or orthographical; see also Alario et al, 2003). Further evidence for the influence of phonological properties on word retrieval comes from priming studies (Ferreira & Griffin, 2003; see also Jaeger et al, 2012, andSamuel, 2002).…”

Section: Phonological Influences On Word Retrieval During Language Prmentioning

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Reconciling phonological neighborhood effects in speech production through single trial analysis

Sadat

Martin

Costa

et al. 2014

Cognitive Psychology

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A crucial step for understanding how lexical knowledge is represented is to describe the relative similarity of lexical items, and how it influences language processing. Previous studies of the effects of form similarity on word production have reported conflicting results, notably within and across languages. The aim of the present study was to clarify this empirical issue to provide specific constraints for theoretical models of language production. We investigated the role of phonological neighborhood density in a large-scale picture naming experiment using finegrained statistical models. The results showed that increasing phonological neighborhood density has a detrimental effect on naming latencies, and re-analyses of independently obtained data sets provide supplementary evidence for this effect. Finally, we reviewed a large body of evidence concerning phonological neighborhood density effects in word production, and discussed the occurrence of facilitatory and inhibitory effects in accuracy measures. The overall pattern shows that phonological neighborhood generates two opposite forces, one facilitatory and one inhibitory. In cases where speech production is disrupted (e.g. certain aphasic symptoms), the facilitatory component may emerge, but inhibitory processes dominate in efficient naming by healthy speakers. These findings are difficult to accommodate in terms of monitoring processes, but can be explained within interactive activation accounts combining phonological facilitation and lexical competition. 2Reconciling phonological neighborhood effects in speech production through single trial analysis Native speakers of a language know a myriad of different words. This so-called mental lexicon is often described as an interconnected network in which representation distance may depend on meaning or form similarities among the words. One crucial step for understanding this network is to describe which kind of similarity influences language processing and how it modulates performance. In this context, the current research is concerned with the role of phonological similarity in word retrieval and speech production. This issue has been addressed in earlier theoretical work (e.g. Chen & Mirman, 2012;Dell & Gordon, 2003), but the empirical evidence on which this work is grounded remains controversial. Our goal in this article is to clarify the empirical facts regarding form similarity effects in speech production, and to integrate them within a single account. Clearing the empirical constraints will allow further refinement of theoretical models to advance our understanding of the cognitive processes underlying speech production.An approximation of how similar or interconnected a word is within the lexical network can be obtained by computing its phonological neighborhood density (PhND). PhND refers to the number of words that can be formed from a given word by substituting, adding or deleting one phoneme (Luce, 1986). For example, the word "bat" sounds similar to many other words (e.g., "cat", "fat",...

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Section: Phonological Influences On Word Retrieval During Language Prmentioning

confidence: 85%

Reconciling phonological neighborhood effects in speech production through single trial analysis

Sadat

Martin

Costa

et al. 2014

Cognitive Psychology

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“…Production models that include lemmas have most often been constructed to account for speech production. However, the assumptions they make can be extended to include an account of written production (see discussions in Alario, Schiller, Domoto-Reilly, & Caramazza, 2003;Berndt & Haendiges, 2000). In such an extended model the lemma is connected to two lexemes, one in the phonological lexicon and one in the orthographic lexicon.…”

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“…A consequence of this is that models of lexical access would not need to postulate an intermediate lexical level of lemmas. This is because the lemma level is, among other things, intended to represent grammatical information separated from modalityspecific information (Caramazza, 1997;Roelofs, Meyer, & Levelt, 1998, defend the alternative view that grammatical class deficits restricted to one modality of output are due to an access impairment; in this interpretation difficulties in accessing the forms of words of certain grammatical categories would be the consequence of a deficit in the transmission of information from the lemmas of certain grammatical categories to the corresponding lexemes; see discussion in Alario et al, 2003).…”

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Closed-class words in sentence production: Evidence from a modality-specific dissociation

Alario¹,

Cohen²

2004

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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Classic observations in the field of the neuropsychology of language have established that brain injury can result in the specific disruption of the ability to use words from the closed class (e.g., determiners, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, etc.) while the production of words from the open class is preserved (e.g., nouns, verbs, etc.). In this study, we report the case of a French native speaker who, following a cerebralvascular accident, presents a dissociation between open-and closed-class words. Importantly, this dissociation is only observed in the written modality of output while oral speech production is by and large normal. Furthermore, the difficulties in writing closed-class words were only observed during sentence production-in spontaneous production or in writing to dictation tasks-but not during single word production. The origin of this deficit is discussed in the context of previously proposed models of sentence production.

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“…Phonological analysis includes grapheme-to-phoneme conversion (Berndt et al, 1994), decoding and retrieval of sound forms of the written words (Herbster et al, 1997;Fiez et al, 1999;Walter et al, 2001;Alario et al, 2003;Simon et al, 2006). Manipulating phonemes and phonological forms of the words involves the superior temporal gyrus (BA 22) (Pugh et al, 1996;Vandenberghe et al, 1996;Lurito et al, 2000;Billingsley et al, 2001;Vigneau et al, 2006) and the inferior frontal gyrus (pars triangularis and opercularis; BA 44, 45) (Zatorre et al, 1992;Dapretto and Bookheimer, 1999;McDermott et al, 2003;Seghier et al, 2004).…”

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Dynamic Causal Modeling of Spatiotemporal Integration of Phonological and Semantic Processes: An Electroencephalographic Study

Yvert

Perrone‐Bertolotti²,

Baciu³

et al. 2012

J. Neurosci.

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Integration of phonological and lexicosemantic processes is essential for visual word recognition. Here we used dynamic causal modeling of event-related potentials, combined with group source reconstruction, to estimate how those processes translate into context-dependent modulation of effective connectivity within the temporal-frontal language network. Fifteen healthy human subjects performed a phoneme detection task in pseudo-words and a semantic categorization task in words. Cortical current densities revealed the sequential activation of temporal regions, from the occipital-temporal junction toward the anterior temporal lobe, before reaching the inferior frontal gyrus. A difference of activation between phonology and semantics was identified in the anterior temporal lobe within the 240 -300 ms peristimulus time window. Dynamic causal modeling indicated this increase of activation of the anterior temporal lobe in the semantic condition as a consequence of an increaseofforwardconnectivityfromtheposteriorinferiortemporallobetotheanteriortemporallobe.Inaddition,fastactivationoftheinferior frontal region, which allowed a feedback control of frontal regions on the superior temporal and posterior inferior temporal cortices, was found to be likely. Our results precisely describe spatiotemporal network mechanisms occurring during integration of phonological and semantic processes. In particular, they support the hypothesis of multiple pathways within the temporal lobe for language processing, where frontal regions would exert a top-down control on temporal regions in the recruitment of the anterior temporal lobe for semantic processing.

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The role of phonological and orthographic information in lexical selection

Cited by 25 publications

References 45 publications

Reconciling phonological neighborhood effects in speech production through single trial analysis

Reconciling phonological neighborhood effects in speech production through single trial analysis

Closed-class words in sentence production: Evidence from a modality-specific dissociation

Dynamic Causal Modeling of Spatiotemporal Integration of Phonological and Semantic Processes: An Electroencephalographic Study

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