Recognition of Spoken Words: Semantic Effects in Lexical Access

Until recently most models of word recognition have assumed that semantic effects come into play only after the identification of the word in question. What little evidence exists for early semantic effects in word recognition has relied primarily on priming manipulations using the lexical decision...

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Published in:Language and speech 2004-06, Vol.47 (2), p.175-204
Main Authors: Wurm, Lee H., Vakoch, Douglas A., Seaman, Sean R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Auditory Stimuli
English
Humans
Language
Language Processing
Lexical access
Lexical decision task
Lexical semantics
Linguistics
Michigan
Naming
Native Speakers
Nouns
Phonemes
Phonetics
Priming
Psycholinguistics
Psychology of language
Reaction Time
Recognition (Psychology)
Semantics
Speech
Speech Perception
Speech production and perception
Stress
Undergraduate Students
Vocabulary
Word length
Word meaning
Word Recognition
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Summary:Until recently most models of word recognition have assumed that semantic effects come into play only after the identification of the word in question. What little evidence exists for early semantic effects in word recognition has relied primarily on priming manipulations using the lexical decision task, and has used visual stimulus presentation. The current study uses auditory stimulus presentation and multiple experimental tasks, and does not use priming. Response latencies for 100 common nouns were found to depend on perceptual dimensions identified by Osgood (1969): Evaluation, Potency, and Activity. In addition, the two-way interactions between these dimensions were significant. All effects were above and beyond the effects of concreteness, word length, frequency, onset phoneme characteristics, stress, and neighborhood density. Results are discussed against evidence from several areas of research suggesting a role of behaviorally important information in perception.
ISSN:0023-8309
1756-6053
DOI:10.1177/00238309040470020401