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Gender and lexical access in Bulgarian [PDF]
Two procedures were used to explore the effects of semantic and grammatical gender on the recognition and processing of Bulgarian nouns, in relation to other factors that are known to affect lexical access. This study in a three-gender language was modeled on previous work in Italian, a two-gender language (Bates, Devescovi, Pizzamiglio, D'Amico ...
Elena Andonova+3 more
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Voornaam is not (really) a Homophone: Lexical Prosody and Lexical Access in Dutch [PDF]
Four experiments examined Dutch listeners' use of suprasegmental information in spoken-word recognition. Isolated syllables excised from minimal stress pairs such as V OORnaam/voorNAAM could be reliably assigned to their source words. In lexical decision, no priming was observed from one member of minimal stress pairs to the other, suggesting that the
Anne Cutler, Wilma van Donselaar
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The Neurobiology of Lexical Access
Matthew H. Davis
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The wide-open doors to lexical access [PDF]
Reading is an ability that appears simple and automatic to the experienced reader, in the same way that driving a car holds no mysteries for the practiced driver. However, most drivers would recall that the number of operations which needed to be learned to move the car smoothly seemed insurmountable during the first days of driving instruction ...
Jon Andoni eDuñabeitia+1 more
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Relationship Between Age and Lexical Access
Lexical access refers to the retrieval of the word considered to be appropriate from the lexicon. The related lexical items are assumed to be arranged in a specific pattern. When the related items are presented in succession, it may evoke facilitation or
Saddam Issa+3 more
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Lexical Retrieval Difficulties in the L1 of Lithuanians in Ireland
The article describes the study of the Irish Lithuanian (IL) L1 lexical attrition. Several indications can show lexical attrition: vocabulary reduction, use of hypernyms instead of hyponyms, code switching, and hesitation markers.
Eglė Vaisėtaitė
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Gender and lexical access in Italian [PDF]
Two new procedures were employed to investigate the effects of semantic and grammatical gender on lexical access in Italian and to investigate the interaction of gender with other factors that are known to influence lexical access in other languages.
B.A.T.E.S. E+4 more
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Lexical access in the production of pronouns [PDF]
Speakers can use pronouns when their conceptual referents are accessible from the preceding discourse, as in 'The flower is red. It turns blue'. Theories of language production agree that in order to produce a noun semantic, syntactic, and phonological information must be accessed. However, little is known about lexical access to pronouns.
Schmitt, B., Meyer, A., Levelt, W.
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Relating Lexical Access and Second Language Speaking Performance
Vocabulary plays a key role in speech production, affecting multiple stages of language processing. This pilot study investigates the relationships between second language (L2) learners’ lexical access and their speaking fluency, speaking accuracy, and ...
Yu Liu
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Lexical stress and lexical access: Homographs versus nonhomographs [PDF]
The purpose of the study was to examine the perceptual effects of altering lexical stress during word recognition. A detection task was utilized to measure subjects’ speed of response to target phonemes preceded by two-syllable homograph and nonhomograph words. These experimental words were pronounced with correct/incorrect lexical stress.
Stephen D. Simon+2 more
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