Neural correlates of age of acquisition on visual word recognition in Persian

Bakhtiar, Mehdi; Su, IF; Lee, Hyun Kyung; Weekes, Brendan S.

doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2015.12.001

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“…Consistent with previous reports (Bakhtiar et al, 2016;Weekes, 2011), AoA effects occurred in the N400 time window independent of effects of frequency. Although Weekes did not find that effects of AoA depended on phonological regularity in his study, he argued in support of the AM hypothesis that the effects of AoA may be generally more pronounced in Chinese because it is an opaque orthography with few reliable mappings in the lexical network like those of grapheme-phoneme correspondence in alphabetic scripts.…”

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“…The greater the degree of inconsistency of input‐to‐output mappings is, the larger the AoA effect will be (Monaghan & Ellis, ). The arbitrary mapping (AM) hypothesis was supported by findings of interactions between AoA and orthography‐phonology consistency, more specifically the presence of a consistency effect in late‐acquired words only, in reading aloud as well as spelling (Monaghan & Ellis, ; Weekes et al, ; Weekes, Chan, & Tan, ; Zevin & Seidenberg, ; see also Bakhtiar, Su, Lee, & Weekes, , for observation from a visual lexical decision task). Alternatively, AoA effects have been proposed to originate at the semantic level (Brysbaert, Lange, & Van Wijnendaele, ; Brysbaert, Van Wijnendaele, & De Deyne, ).…”

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Interactions of age of acquisition and lexical frequency effects with phonological regularity: An ERP study

Yum

Law

2019

Psychophysiology

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Across languages, lexical frequency and age of acquisition (AoA) are important predictors of word reading that are naturally correlated, and both variables have been shown to interact with phonological regularity. Previous behavioral findings in Chinese have shown stronger regularity effects in low frequency relative to high frequency characters. Meanwhile, the arbitrary mapping hypothesis predicts stronger interference effects in late‐acquired irregular words. This study examined the neural bases of these phenomena in Chinese using a delayed naming task with 480 single characters. Single‐trial ERP analyses were conducted to contrast the interactions of frequency or AoA effects with phonological regularity, while controlling for the other factor. Results showed differential and significant effects of AoA and frequency at the N400 and late positive component (LPC), respectively, indicating their independence. ERP interaction patterns of frequency and regularity in Chinese were observed for the first time in the LPC time window and suggested semantic interference from sublexical units during character reading. Interaction of AoA and regularity at the N400 could be explained by the semantic hypothesis but appeared inconsistent with the arbitrary mapping hypothesis.

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Interactions of age of acquisition and lexical frequency effects with phonological regularity: An ERP study

Yum

Law

2019

Psychophysiology

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“…These effects have been reported to affect multiple levels of language processing as is evident from their influence on a variety of language tasks, such as word naming, lexical decision, picture naming, semantic relatedness, and naturalistic reading (Brysbaert, Wijnendaele, & Deyne, 2000 ; Cortese & Khanna, 2007 ; Davies, Arnell, Birchenough, Grimmond, & Houlson, 2017 ; Dirix & Duyck, 2017 ; Ghyselinck, Lewis, & Brysbaert, 2004 ; Monaghan & Ellis, 2002 ). The same has also been demonstrated in electroencephalography and neuroimaging studies (Bakhtiar, Su, Lee, & Weekes, 2016 ; Ellis, Burani, Izura, Bromiley, & Venneri, 2006 ; Woollams, 2012 ; Yum & Law, 2019 ), as well as by computational modeling (Chang, Monaghan, & Welbourne, 2019 ; Ellis & Lambon Ralph, 2000 ; Monaghan & Ellis, 2010 ; Steyvers & Tenenbaum, 2005 ; Zevin & Seidenberg, 2002 ).…”

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Age of acquisition effects on traditional Chinese character naming and lexical decision

Chang

Lee

2020

Psychon Bull Rev

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Across languages, age of acquisition (AoA) is a critical psycholinguistic factor in lexical processing, reflecting the influence of learning experience. Early-acquired words tend to be processed more quickly and accurately than late-acquired words. Recently, an integrated view proposed that both the mappings between representations and the construction of semantic representations contribute to AoA effects, thus, predicting larger AoA effects for words with arbitrary mappings between representations as well as for tasks requiring greater semantic processing. We investigated how these predictions generalize to the Chinese language system that differs from alphabetic languages regarding the ease of mappings and semantic involvement in lexical processing. A cross-task investigation of differential psycholinguistic effects was conducted with large character naming and lexical decision datasets to establish the extent to which semantics is involved in the two tasks. We focused on examining the effect sizes of lexical-semantic variables and AoA, and the interaction between AoA and consistency. The results demonstrated that semantics influenced Chinese character naming more than lexical decision, which is in contrast with the findings related to English language, though, critically, AoA effects were more pronounced for character naming than for lexical decision. Additionally, an interaction between AoA and consistency was found in character naming. Our findings provide cross-linguistic evidence supporting the view of multiple origins of AoA effects in the language-processing system.

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“…AoA was partially significant in the monolingual group, with no effect in the C-E group. The significant effect of AoA on object naming is consistent with previous studies (Bakhtiar, Nilipour, & Weekes, 2013;Bakhtiar, Su, Lee, & Weekes, 2016;Patrick Bonin, Guillemard-Tsaparina, & Méot, 2013;Liu, Hao, Li, & Shu, 2011;Perret & Bonin, 2018). However, the null effect of AoA in the C-E bilingual speakers contrasts with results from other studies (Khwaileh et al, 2018;Schwitter, Boyer, Méot, Bonin, & Laganaro, 2004;Shao, Roelofs, & Meyer, 2014).…”

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Picture naming in bilingual and monolingual Chinese speakers: Capturing similarity and variability

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Picture-naming latency differs across languages in bilingual speakers. We compared the effects of key psycholinguistic variables on picture naming among two groups of Chinese bilingual speakers and Mandarin monolingual speakers. First, we asked bilingual and monolingual speakers to estimate the age of acquisition, familiarity, visual complexity, name agreement, and imageability of a set of object and action pictures in Mandarin and Cantonese. Next, we recruited 60 Cantonese-English speakers, 50 Mandarin-Cantonese bilingual speakers, and 30 monolingual speakers who named the object and action pictures in Cantonese and Mandarin, respectively. We observed variability in the effects of item-level characteristics among groups, suggesting an interaction between item-level and individual-level characteristics as predicted. This variability was higher in bilingual speakers who spoke similar languages (Mandarin-Cantonese) in comparison to those speaking more distant languages (Cantonese-English). Our results suggest that monolingual norms and bilingual norms capture the same amount of variability; however, grammatical class interactions with other variables are explained differentially by the bilingual and monolingual norms. We discuss the implications of our findings in terms of norming studies for timed picture naming and effects of bilingualism on language processing.

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Neural correlates of age of acquisition on visual word recognition in Persian

Cited by 12 publications

References 32 publications

Interactions of age of acquisition and lexical frequency effects with phonological regularity: An ERP study

Interactions of age of acquisition and lexical frequency effects with phonological regularity: An ERP study

Age of acquisition effects on traditional Chinese character naming and lexical decision

Picture naming in bilingual and monolingual Chinese speakers: Capturing similarity and variability

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