Semantic facilitation and semantic interference in word translation: Implications for models of lexical access in language production

Bloem, Ineke; Heij, Wido La

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“…On the basis of these findings, La Heij et al concluded that "the ease of target selection is at least one of the factors that contributed to the reversal from semantic interference in Experiment 1 into semantic facilitation in Experiment 2" (p. 58). To conclude, in contrast to what Bloem and La Heij (2003) maintained, picture distractors may yield semantic effects, depending on the task situation. Second, the model of word planning proposed by Bloem and La Heij (2003) does not distinguish between lexical selection and phonological encoding, so semantic and phonological effects are expected to co-occur.…”

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“…To conclude, in contrast to what Bloem and La Heij (2003) maintained, picture distractors may yield semantic effects, depending on the task situation. Second, the model of word planning proposed by Bloem and La Heij (2003) does not distinguish between lexical selection and phonological encoding, so semantic and phonological effects are expected to co-occur. This makes the presence of a phonological effect in the absence of a semantic effect surprising.…”

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“…Dell (1986) argued that all word forms corresponding to the activated concepts and lemmas become continuously activated. And Altmann and Davidson (2001) and Bloem and La Heij (2003) argued that although objects activate their concepts and related ones, the lemmas, morphemes, phonemes, and motor programs of the object names are only activated when a speaker has the goal of naming the objects. The phonological facilitation effect from distractor pictures in Experiment 1 and the absence of the effect in Experiment 2 challenges the claim of Bloem and La Heij that only selected concepts activate their lemmas and forms, and it challenges the claim of Levelt et al (1999) that only selected lemmas activate their word forms.…”

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“…This suggests that the absence of an effect of pictures/dice on word reading is due to the limited amount of activation spreading from pictures/dice to word forms (see Roelofs, 2003Roelofs, , 2006aRoelofs, , 2006b, for further discussion). Bloem and La Heij (2003) argued that the finding of Morsella and Miozzo (2002) concerning the effect of a phonological relation between target and distractor pictures is problematic in the light of the finding by Damian and Bowers (2003) that a semantic relation between pictures does not yield an effect. Navarrete and Costa (2005) also obtained no semantic effect of picture distractors on picture naming latencies.…”

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Tracing attention and the activation flow in spoken word planning using eye movements.

Roelofs

2008

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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The flow of activation from concepts to phonological forms within the word production system was examined in 3 experiments. In Experiment 1, participants named pictures while ignoring superimposed distractor pictures that were semantically related, phonologically related, or unrelated. Eye movements and naming latencies were recorded. The distractor pictures affected the latencies of gaze shifting and vocal naming. The magnitude of the phonological effects increased linearly with latency, excluding lapses of attention as the cause of the effects. In Experiment 2, no distractor effects were obtained when both pictures were named. When pictures with superimposed distractor words were named or the words were read in Experiment 3, the words influenced the latencies of gaze shifting and picture naming, but the pictures yielded no such latency effects in word reading. The picture-word asymmetry was obtained even with equivalent reading and naming latencies. The picture-picture effects suggest that activation spreads continuously from concepts to phonological forms, whereas the picture-word asymmetry indicates that the amount of activation is limited and task dependent.

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Tracing attention and the activation flow in spoken word planning using eye movements.

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2008

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“…For example, speakers took 41 ms longer to begin saying horse and giraffethan horse and toaster. Note that other studies suggest that simply viewing a related object does not cause interference (Bloem & La Heij, 2003;Damian & Bowers, 2003), so having the second object in a discourse representation seems to be a prerequisite for interference, if not the source of it. Second, the experiments reported here suggest that having additional entities in a discourse representation not only delays reference but also has the more specific effect of decreasing the use of pronouns.…”

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The effect of additional characters on choice of referring expression: Everyone counts☆

Arnold

Griffin

2007

Journal of Memory and Language

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Two story-telling experiments examine the process of choosing between pronouns and proper names in speaking. Such choices are traditionally attributed to speakers striving to make referring expressions maximally interpretable to addressees. The experiments revealed a novel effect: even when a pronoun would not be ambiguous, the presence of another character in the discourse decreased pronoun use and increased latencies to refer to the most prominent character in the discourse. In other words, speakers were more likely to call Minnie Minnie than shewhen Donald was also present. Even when the referent character appeared alone in the stimulus picture, the presence of another character in the preceding discourse reduced pronouns. Furthermore, pronoun use varied with features associated with the speaker's degree of focus on the preceding discourse (e.g., narrative style and disfluency). We attribute this effect to competition for attentional resources in the speaker's representation of the discourse. Keywords language production; discourse; reference; pronouns; word selection; proper names When people talk, they refer to things. They constantly make rapid decisions about whether an expression should be explicit, like Michelle Bacheletor the first female president in Chile, or whether it should be relatively underspecified, like she. In this paper we examine the production processes involved in the choice between less specific expressions, like pronouns, and more explicit expressions, like proper names.Research on this issue has primarily focused on the aspects of discourse that constrain speakers' choices in referring expressions, and in particular, the linguistic discourse history. The standard approach assumes that a speaker's task is to pick a referring expression that maximally fits the current discourse situation, so as to make it easy for the listener to interpret. An explicit formulation of this idea is offered by Chafe (1994), "If language is to function effectively, a speaker is obliged to categorize a shared referent in a way that allows the listener to identify it" (p. 97). Similarly, Gundel and colleagues (1993) state, "the form of referring expressions… Corresponding author: Dr. Jennifer Arnold, UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of Psychology, CB#3270 Davie Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270, Email: jarnold@email.unc.edu. This research was partially funded by NIH grants HD-41522 to J. Arnold and MH61318-01 to Z. Griffin, as well as NSF grant BCS-0318456 to Z. Griffin.Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. NIH Public Access NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Aut...

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An Appraisal of the Bilingual Language Production System: Quantitatively or Qualitatively Different from Monolinguals?

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FitzPatrick

Strijkers

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The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism

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Semantic facilitation and semantic interference in word translation: Implications for models of lexical access in language production

Cited by 207 publications

References 56 publications

Tracing attention and the activation flow in spoken word planning using eye movements.

Tracing attention and the activation flow in spoken word planning using eye movements.

The effect of additional characters on choice of referring expression: Everyone counts☆

An Appraisal of the Bilingual Language Production System: Quantitatively or Qualitatively Different from Monolinguals?

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