The Picture–Word Interference Paradigm: Grammatical Class Effects in Lexical Production

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• 作者：Flavia De Simone ; Simona Collina
• 关键词：Picture–word interference paradigm ; Lexical production ; Grammatical class ; Imageability
• 刊名：Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：45
• 期：5
• 页码：1003-1019
• 全文大小：433 KB
• 刊物主题：Psychology, general; Cognitive Psychology; Psycholinguistics;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-6555
• 卷排序：45

文摘

Four picture–word interference experiments aimed to test the role of grammatical class in lexical production. In Experiment 1 target nouns and verbs were produced in presence of semantically unrelated distractors that could also be nouns and verbs. Participants were slower when the distractor was of the same grammatical category of the target. To rule out the semantic hypothesis that the effects were due to objects versus actions semantic dichotomy rather than to grammatical class, Experiment 2 was conducted. Participants named target verbs in presence of unrelated action nouns and verbs. The results evidenced a grammatical category effect. Finally, in Experiments 3 and 4, morphologically not derived materials were used to verify the role of morphological information. The results evidenced a syntactic effect independent from morphology. Taken together the results supported the hypothesis that grammatical class information plays a crucial role in lexical production.