Experimental evidence for serial models of lexical access: a judgment task.
The hypothesis that the lemma and lexeme levels of lexical access are in a feed-forward serial relation is supported. Subjects judge the degree of semantic relatedness of pairs of words. Stimuli are all functionally synonymous; they are pairs of words implicated in natural word blends. Half the stimuli are phonologically related and the other half are not. In one experiment the pairs are presented in a sentential context and in the other no context is provided. In both the experiments the phonologically unrelated pairs are judged closer in meaning than the phonologically related pairs. This is interpreted as support for serial models of lexical access.
Laubstein
Ann Stuart
AS
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Carleton University. alaubste@ccs.carleton.ca
D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D010700:Phonetics; D013060:Speech; D014825:Vocabulary