When words are upside down: Language–space associations in children and adults

Vogt, Anne; Kaup, Barbara; Dudschig, Carolin

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2019.06.001

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“…Ade-Ojo et al (2015) has explored the nature of the social dimension of adult literacy which recognizes literacy as a social practice. Piaget stated that the interaction with the environment and the thereby acquired sensorimotor information initially drives cognitive development (Vogt et al, 2019). Moreover, the most-immediate environmental pertains can affect the frequency of language used that can help an adult to acquire and process the language better (Kidd et al, 2018).…”

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The Process of Acquiring Declarative Sentence on Aphasia

Muzakky

Fahriany

Utami

2021

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The present study investigates the process of acquiring declarative sentences in aphasia language learners. This study seeks to address the question of how the process of an aphasia language learner to acquire declarative sentences. Using a case study, the process of interview was implemented to explore the subject's response toward this issue. The subject is an adult language learner who is 69 years old. The data were obtained from interviews and documents. The interview section was used to explore the process of acquiring declarative sentences, and the documents were used to check the validity of the interview. The data analysis of acquiring declarative sentences showed: (1) the process of acquiring the language on an adult is through behaviorist theory that consists of subject's routinizes in reading books, newspapers, and comics. (2) In adult language learners, the duration of acquiring the language is not too long and challenging. The subject takes a significant effort to deal with various activities, and it is the characteristic of an adult in acquiring the language. (3) In the construction of declarative sentences, the subjects could produce six sentences correctly and no grammar errors. He also could interact with others through those sentences. The challenge is on the way he produces, which is slowly mouth movement. Additionally, we open the gate of future research with pieces of evidence. It was recommended the future research on this study might be conducted in a quantitative method with more adult language learners involved.

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The Process of Acquiring Declarative Sentence on Aphasia

Muzakky

Fahriany

Utami

2021

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“…This is especially relevant as the reliability of the clas-sical ACE has recently been called into question (Papesh, 2015), especially since a large multi-lab collaboration has failed to replicate it (Morey et al, in press). However, this debate on the ACE did not yet consider word-level effects, which have been reliably observed across many different studies Dudschig, de la Vega, De Filippis, & Kaup, 2014;Dudschig, Lachmair, de la Vega, De Filippis, & Kaup, 2012;Lachmair et al, 2011;Öttl et al, 2017;Thornton et al, 2013;Vogt, Kaup, & Dudschig, 2019; see also the pilot study in Günther et al, 2018). In the studies where this word-level effect was not observed, this can either be attributed to missing saliency of the vertical dimension in both the stimulus and response set or, as in the studies presented here, to the specific word material (novel word labels for non-experienced referents; compare Günther et al, 2018).…”

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The limits of automatic sensorimotor processing during word processing: Investigations with repeated linguistic experience, memory consolidation during sleep, and rich linguistic learning contexts

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Dudschig³

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While a number of studies have repeatedly demonstrated an automatic activation of sensorimotor experience during language processing in the form of action-congruency effects, as predicted by theories of grounded cognition, more recent research has not found these effects for words that were just learned from linguistic input alone, without sensorimotor experience with their referents. In the present study, we investigate whether this absence of effects can be attributed to a lack of repeated experience and consolidation of the associations between words and sensorimotor experience in memory. To address these issues, we conducted four experiments in which (1 and 2) participants engaged in two separate learning phases in which they learned novel words from language alone, with an intervening period of memory-consolidating sleep, and (3 and 4) we employed familiar words whose referents speakers have no direct experience with (such as plankton). However, we again did not observe action-congruency effects in subsequent test phases in any of the experiments. This indicates that direct sensorimotor experience with word referents is a necessary requirement for automatic sensorimotor activation during word processing.

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“…For example, it has been shown that information about the shape or the typical location of entities is activated when mentioned in a sentence and influences subsequent tasks, even though an activation of these aspects is not necessary to fulfil the tasks (e.g., Vogt, Kaup, & Dudschig, 2019;Zwaan, Stanfield, & Yaxley, 2002). EEGand MEG-studies also provide support for the idea that processing of meaning leads to experientially grounded reactivations in the motor domain (e.g.…”

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Experience-driven meaning affects lexical choices during language production

Vogt¹,

Kaup²,

Rahman³

2021

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The role of meaning facets based on sensorimotor experiences is well-investigated in comprehension but has received little attention in language production research. In two experiments, we investigated whether experiential traces of space influenced lexical choices when participants completed visually-presented sentence fragments (e.g., ‘You are at the sea and you see a ...’) with spoken nouns (e.g., ‘dolphin’, ‘palm tree’). The words were presented consecutively in an ascending or descending direction, starting from the center of the screen. These physical spatial cues did not influence lexical choices. However, the produced nouns met the spatial characteristics of the broader sentence contexts such that the typical spatial locations of the produced noun referents were predicted by the location of the situations described by the sentence fragments (i. e., upper or lower sphere). By including distributional semantic similarity measures derived from computing cosine values between sentence nouns and produced nouns using a web-based text corpus, we show that the meaning dimension of ‘location in space’ guides lexical selection during speaking. We discuss the relation of this spatial meaning dimension to accounts of experientially grounded and usage-based theories of language processing and their combination in hybrid approaches. In doing so, we contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the many facets of meaning processing during language production and their impact on the words we select to express verbal messages.

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When words are upside down: Language–space associations in children and adults

Cited by 14 publications

References 43 publications

The Process of Acquiring Declarative Sentence on Aphasia

The Process of Acquiring Declarative Sentence on Aphasia

The limits of automatic sensorimotor processing during word processing: Investigations with repeated linguistic experience, memory consolidation during sleep, and rich linguistic learning contexts

Experience-driven meaning affects lexical choices during language production

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