Enhanced phonological facilitation and traces of concurrent word form activation in speech production: an object-naming study with multiple distractors.
In the present study, we extended the classic picture-word interference paradigm by the presentation of multiple distractor words (Experiment 1) to reexamine whether the word forms of semantic alternatives receive activation in the course of object naming. Experiment 2 showed that phonological facilitation can be magnified by the presentation of multiple words that share overlapping initial and final segments with the target name. Experiments 3 and 4 tested for traces ofnontarget phonological activation with multiple distractors, which enhances the chances of detecting such effects. These experiments revealed a consistent pattern of interference effects induced by words that were related to a semantic category member, consistent with theories assuming phonological activation of nontarget alternatives.
Abdel Rahman
Rasha
R
Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany. rasha.abdel.rahman@cms.hu-berlin.de
Melinger
Alissa
A
D001288:Attention; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012660:Semantics; D013067:Speech Perception; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D014825:Vocabulary