Word frequency effects in speech production: Retrieval of syntactic information and of phonological form (1994)
| Venue: | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition |
| Citations: | 31 - 1 self |
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@ARTICLE{Jescheniak94wordfrequency,
author = {Jorg D. Jescheniak and Willem J. M. Levelt},
title = {Word frequency effects in speech production: Retrieval of syntactic information and of phonological form},
journal = {Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition},
year = {1994},
volume = {20},
pages = {824--843}
}
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Abstract
In 7 experiments the authors investigated the locus of word frequency effects in speech production. Experiment 1 demonstrated a frequency effect in picture naming that was robust over repetitions. Experiments 2, 3, and 7 excluded contributions from object identification and initiation of articulation. Experiments 4 and 5 investigated whether the effect arises in accessing the syntactic word (lemma) by using a grammatical gender decision task. Although a frequency effect was found, it dissipated under repeated access to a word's gender. Experiment 6 tested whether the robust frequency effect arises in accessing the phonological form (lexeme) by having Ss translate words that produced homophones. Low-frequent homophones behaved like high-frequent controls, inheriting the accessing speed of their high-frequent homophone twins. Because homophones share the lexeme, not the lemma, this suggests a lexeme-level origin of the robust effect. The word frequency effect in speech production was discovered by Oldfield and Wingfield (1965). In a picture-naming task, they found that pictures with low-frequency (LF) names (such as syringe) took longer to name than pictures with high-frequency (HF) names (such as basket). Wingfield (1968)
