Mental Lexicon 2018
This collection holds the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, held in Edmonton, Alberta, on September 25-28, 2018. This annual conference brings together psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, and computational research on the representation and processing of words in the mind/brain and encourages a variety of perspectives on lexical representation and processing.
Items in this Collection
- 4Benjamin V. Tucker
- 3Filip Nenadić
- 2Juhani Järvikivi
- 1Aleka Akoyunoglou Blackwell
- 1Alessandro Lenci
- 1Alexander Rokos
- 3auditory lexical decision
- 3lexical processing
- 2auditory word recognition
- 2lexical access
- 1Arabic
- 1Canadian French
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2019-03-14
This study illustrates how cluster analysis can be applied to vocabulary assessment to classify students into groups with similar profiles of vocabulary knowledge so that vocabulary instruction can be designed and targeted more precisely, especially in light of the multi-dimensional nature of the...
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A reassessment of the effects of neighborhood density and phonotactic probability on L2 English word learning
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Two groups of participants were formed according to their level of English: high and low proficiency. No differences were found between groups. Although visual preference for three competitors was different in four time windows, supporting the existence of lexical processing in cascade, a...
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2019-03-26
Filip Nenadić, Benjamin V. Tucker
The TRACE model of spoken word recognition has been widely discussed and used, but was never implemented to simulate the auditory lexical decision task, particularly on a larger number of items. In this study, we attempt to model accuracy and latency estimates and compare the obtained values to...
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2019-03-26
In a self-paced reading study, we investigated the extent to which non-native speakers use biasing context in idiom processing, and whether idiom literality limits these effects as it does in native speakers. Idioms with a high potential for literal interpretations (e.g., break the ice) and a low...
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2019-03-26
Nancy Azevedo, Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Kathleen Berkun, Alexandra Papathanasopoulos, Leen Yamani, Alexander Rokos, Eva Kehayia
A typical N400 event-related potential (ERP) component occurs when the brain detects a semantic contradiction and can be elicited by the canonical experiment where the final word of a sentence contradicts what a listener is expecting to hear. In the absence of an N400 elicitation paradigm in...
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2019-03-26
Lucia C. Passaro, Marco S. G. Senaldi, Alessandro Lenci
This paper presents some preliminary results of the SIDE project, which aims at investigating the emotional content of idioms from both a behavioral and computational point of view. In this first work, we collected affective ratings for a set of 45 Italian verb-noun idioms and 45 Italian...
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2019-03-26
Graham Tomkins Feeny, Juhani Järvikivi, Benjamin V. Tucker
The present experiment investigated the role of vocal affect in spoken word recognition. Participants performed an auditory lexical decision task with stimuli articulated by a professional male actor with different acoustic realizations of vocal affect (Angry, Neutral, and Joyful). In addition,...
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Exploring intralexical meaning: Semantic neighbourhood and transparency effects on the reading of compound words
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Katherine R. Matchett, Lori Buchanan
This exploratory archival analysis investigates the relationships probabilistic co-occurrence measures of semantic association and semantic richness have with subjective measures of semantic transparency in English compound words. We also examine their correlations with behavioural measures....
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2019-03-25
Alma Luz Rodríguez-Lázaro, Natalia Arias-Trejo, Armando Q. Angulo-Chavira, Alina Signoret Dorcasberro
Lexical access has been suggested by Huettig and McQueen [4] to show cascade processing when auditory and visual information are presented to native speakers. The aim of this study was to determine whether cascade processing in Spanish-English bilinguals in a Mexican university is similar to that...
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2019-03-14
Skye J. Anderson, Jonathan A. Geary
We report on a visual masked priming study that tests whether English verbs are primed by their consonant graphemes in isolation (e.g. whether grw primes GROW) and whether priming for such prime-target pairs differs for regular versus irregular verbs (e.g. walk/ed vs. grow/grew, respectively). We...