Short Article: Newly Learned Spoken Words Show Long-Term Lexical Competition Effects
| Autor: | M. Gareth Gaskell, Jakke Tamminen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Mental lexicon
Repetition (rhetorical device) Physiology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Cognition General Medicine Lexicon Linguistics Competition (economics) Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Term (lexical) Physiology (medical) Lexical decision task Lexico Psychology computer General Psychology computer.programming_language Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 61:361-371 |
| ISSN: | 1747-0226 1747-0218 |
| Popis: | Newly learned spoken words (e.g., “cathedruke”) become fully engaged in the mental lexicon, as measured via lexical competition with their pre-existing phonological neighbours (e.g., “cathedral”), over the course of several hours or days, and this lexical restructuring is associated with sleep (Dumay & Gaskell, 2007). Here, we investigated the longer-term effects of word learning for three sets of novel words learned at different times using phoneme monitoring and repetition tasks. The effects of these exposure sessions on lexical memory were assessed in a battery of tests. Lexical decision latencies to pre-existing neighbouring words showed that lexical competition effects for the novel words remained observable 8 months after initial exposure. Furthermore, the order-of-acquisition of the novel words affected their production speed (but not recognition speed), with an advantage for earlier acquired words. The results suggest that the consolidation of novel words results in a long-term and stable change in the lexical competition process. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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