Context Effects on Lexical Choice and Lexical Activation

Autor/inn/en	Jescheniak, Jorg D.; Hantsch, Ansgar; Schriefers, Herbert
Titel	Context Effects on Lexical Choice and Lexical Activation
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31 (2005) 5, S.905-920 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
Schlagwörter	Context Effect; Lexicology; Interference (Language); Phonology; Vocabulary; Decision Making + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lexikologie; Fonologie; Wortschatz; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung
Abstract	Speakers are regularly confronted with the choice among lexical alternatives when referring to objects, including basic-level names (e.g., car) and subordinate-level names (e.g., Beetle). Which of these names is eventually selected often depends on contextual factors. The present article reports a series of picture-word interference experiments that explored how the designated target name (basic level vs. subordinate level) and contextual constraints rendering the name alternative either appropriate or inappropriate affect lexical activation and lexical choice. The experimental data demonstrate clear context effects on the eventual lexical choice. However, they also show that alternative nonselected object names are phonologically activated, even if a constraining context makes these alternative names currently inappropriate. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10