Lexique 2 : A new French lexical database

New, Boris; Pallier, Christophe; Brysbaert, Marc; Ferrand, Ludovic

doi:10.3758/bf03195598

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“…Fifty-four pairs of bisyllabic words with a consonant-vowel first syllable were selected in Lexique (New et al, 2004) according to leader strength, computed as the ratio of the frequency of the highest frequency neighbour to the summed frequency of the HFSNs. In each pair, one of the words had a high leader strength (high LS word), meaning that its highest frequency syllabic neighbour was much more frequent than other HFSNs, while the other had a low leader strength (low LS word), that is no leader highly distinguishable from other HFSNs.…”

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Electrophysiological markers of syllable frequency during written word recognition in French

Chetail

Colin

2012

Neuropsychologia

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a b s t r a c tSeveral empirical lines of investigation support the idea that syllable-sized units may be involved in visual word recognition processes. In this perspective, the present study aimed at investigating further the nature of the process that causes syllabic effects in reading. To do so, the syllable frequency effect was investigated in French using event related potentials while participants performed a lexical decision task (Experiment 1). Consistent with previous studies, manipulating the frequency of the first syllable in words and pseudowords yielded two temporally distinct effects. Compared to items with a first syllable of low frequency, items with a syllable of high frequency elicited a weaker P200 component, reflecting early sub-lexical facilitation, and a larger N400 component, supposed to ensue from competition between syllabic neighbours. To examine which factors determine the strength of interference during lexical access, regression analyses were conducted on the late temporal window potentials. The inhibitory syllable frequency effect was best predicted by leader strength, that is, the frequency ratio between the most frequent syllabic neighbour and the others. When this variable was directly manipulated while controlling for syllable frequency and number of higher frequency syllabic neighbours (Experiment 2), electrophysiological data confirmed the impact of leader strength. The results are discussed in the context of interactive activation-based models augmented with syllabic representations.

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“…To manipulate syllable frequency, 80 pairs of bisyllabic words with a consonant-vowel first syllable were selected in the French lexical database Lexique (New, Pallier, Brysbaert, & Ferrand, 2004) according to the frequency of their first phonological syllable. Syllable frequencies were drawn from the InfoSyll database (Chetail & Mathey, 2010).…”

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Electrophysiological markers of syllable frequency during written word recognition in French

Chetail

Colin

2012

Neuropsychologia

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“…Target words were matched one with another (all P's > 0.1) for their number of letters (idiom-related: 7.6 (±3), word-related: 6.6 (±2), unrelated: 7.6 (±2.4), non-word targets: 6.6 (±1.2)) and of phonemes (idiom-related: 6.2 (±2.9), word-related: 5 (±1.9), unrelated: 5.9 (±2.2), non-word targets: 4.7 (±0.8)). Furthermore, idiom-related targets, word-related targets and unrelated target words were matched one with another (all P's > 0.1) for their log-transformed token frequency according to the LEX-IQUE 2 database (New, Pallier, Brysbaert, & Ferrand, 2004) (idiom-related targets 50 per million (±107.2), word-related targets 28.3 per million (±38.6), unrelated targets 36 per million (±89.2)).…”

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The role of the striatum in sentence processing: Evidence from a priming study in early stages of Huntington's disease

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The role of sub-cortical structures such as the striatum in language remains a controversial issue. Based on linguistic claims that language processing implies both recovery of lexical information and application of combinatorial rules it has been shown that striatal damaged patients have difficulties applying conjugation rules while lexical recovery of irregular forms is broadly spared (e.g., Ullman, M. T., Corkin, S., Coppola, M., Hickok, G., Growdon, J. H., Koroshetz, W. J., et al. (1997). A neural dissociation within language: Evidence that the mental dictionary is part of declarative memory, and that grammatical rules are processed by the procedural system. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9(2), 266-276). Here we bolstered the striatum-rule hypothesis by investigating lexical abilities and rule application at the phrasal level.Both processing aspects were assessed in a model of striatal dysfunction, namely Huntington's disease (HD). Using a semantic priming task we compared idiomatic prime sentences involving lexical access to whole phrases (e.g., "Paul has kicked the bucket") with idiom-derived sentences that contained passivation changes involving syntactic movement rules (e.g., "Paul was kicked by the bucket"), word changes (e.g., "Paul has crushed the bucket") or either. Target words that were either idiom-related (e.g., "death") reflecting lexical access to idiom meanings, word-related (e.g., "bail") reflecting lexical access to single words, or unrelated (e.g., "table").HD patients displayed selective abnormalities with passivated sentences whereas priming was normal with idioms and sentences containing only word changes. We argue that the role of the striatum in sentence processing specifically pertains to the application of syntactic movement rules whereas it is not involved in canonical rules required for active structures or in lexical processing aspects. Our findings support the striatum-rule hypothesis but suggest that it should be refined by tracking the particular kind of language rules depending on striatal computations.

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“…Two lists of 1250 words each were created from the French lexical database Lexique 2 (New et al, 2004). The first list F+ included words of high frequency of occurrence (45.03 < F+ < 13896.7 per million) whereas the second list F-included low-frequency words (0.03 < F-< 1 p/m).…”

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Real-time lexical competitions during speech-in-speech comprehension

Boulenger

Hoen

Ferragne

et al. 2010

Speech Communication

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This study aimed at characterizing the cognitive processes that come into play during speech-inspeech comprehension by examining lexical competitions between target speech and concurrent multi-talker babble. We investigated the effects of number of simultaneous talkers (2, 4, 6 or 8) and of the token frequency of the words that compose the babble (high or low) on lexical decision to target words. Results revealed a decrease in performance as measured by reaction times to targets with increasing number of concurrent talkers. Crucially, the frequency of words in the babble significantly affected performance: high-frequency babble interfered more strongly (by lengthening reaction times) with word recognition than low-frequency babble. This informational masking was particularly salient when only two talkers were present in the babble due to the availability of identifiable lexical items from the background. Our findings suggest that speech comprehension in multi-talker babble can trigger competitions at the lexical level between target and background. They further highlight the importance of investigating speechin-speech comprehension situations as they may provide crucial information on interactive and competitive mechanisms that occur in real-time during word recognition.

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Lexique 2 : A new French lexical database

Cited by 803 publications

References 9 publications

Electrophysiological markers of syllable frequency during written word recognition in French

Electrophysiological markers of syllable frequency during written word recognition in French

The role of the striatum in sentence processing: Evidence from a priming study in early stages of Huntington's disease

Real-time lexical competitions during speech-in-speech comprehension

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