Selection of gender marked morphemes in speech production

Contains fulltext : 54796.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)N.O. Schiller and A. Caramazza (2003) and A. Costa, D. Kovacic, E. Fedorenko, and A. Caramazza (2003) have argued that the processing of freestanding gender-marked morphemes (e.g., determiners) and bound gender-marked morphemes (e.g., adjective suffixes) during syntactic encoding in speech production follows distinct principles, with only freestanding morphemes being subject to a competitive selection process. In 3 experiments, the authors tested this hypothesis in German, extending a previous study by H. Schriefers, J.D. Jescheniak, and A. Hantsch (2002). The results suggest that freestanding and bound morphemes are basically processed in the same way, although competition appears to be attenuated for bound morphemes relative to free morphemes. The authors discuss theoretical and methodological implications of this pattern

Semantic Interference in Blocked Picture Naming: Does It Become Cumulative with Large Local Response Sets?

Here we provide materials, data, and analysis scripts (for R) used for analyses reported in: Wöhner, S. & Jescheniak, J. D. (2024). Semantic Interference in Blocked Picture Naming: Does It Become Cumulative with Large Local Response Sets

Semantic Interference in Blocked Picture Naming: Does It Become Cumulative with Large Local Response Sets?

The naming of a picture (e.g., of a horse) is delayed if the speaker has recently named one or more semantically related pictures (e.g., of a sheep or a cow). Such interference has been found both when large numbers of pictures (more than 100) are named only once (continuous naming) and when small subsets of pictures (four to six) are named repeatedly (blocked-cyclic naming). The effects have been attributed to an adaptive learning mechanism that incrementally changes the connection weights between semantic and lexical representations across naming episodes (Oppenheim et al., 2010). However, interference shows a different development in the tasks: it is cumulative in continuous naming and non-cumulative in blocked-cyclic naming. It has been argued that the use of small local response sets in blocked naming, which are easily identified and stored in working memory, introduces an additional process (e.g., a top-down bias) that constrains semantic interference. We reasoned that such a process should be less likely to be effective, and thus interference should become cumulative, as the local response sets become larger and are less easily identified. We conducted a standard blocked-cyclic naming experiment and a blocked-interleaved naming variant thereof with local response sets of 10 and 19 items, respectively. In blocked-cyclic naming, we found that interference increased from repetition 1 to repetition 3 but remained constant thereafter which was also partly confirmed on a single trial basis. In blocked-interleaved naming, interference remained constant across repetitions. We discuss the implications of our findings

Naming pictures and sounds: Stimulus type affects semantic context effects

Here we provide materials, data, and analysis scripts (for R) used for analyses reported in: Wöhner, S., Mädebach, A., and Jescheniak, J. D. (2021). Naming pictures and sounds: Stimulus type affects semantic context effects. The pre-print is available here: https://psyarxiv.com/ejuc5 The online version of the accepted and published manuscript is available here: https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp000090

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Adaptive Processing in Word Production: Evidence from Picture-Word-Interference Studies

Here we provide materials, data, and analysis scripts (for R) used for analyses reported in: Jescheniak, J. D., Wöhner, S., and Schriefers, H. (2023). Adaptive Processing in Word Production: Evidence from Picture-Word-Interference Studies

Grammatical-gender effects in noun-noun compound production

Here we provide data and analysis-scripts (both for R and SPSS) for the analyses reported in: Lorenz, A., Mädebach, A., and Jescheniak, J. D. (2017). Grammatical-gender effects in noun-noun compound production: Evidence from German. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.131091

Naming pictures and sounds: Stimulus type affects semantic context effects

Semantic context effects obtained in naming tasks have been most influential in devising and evaluating models of word production. We re-investigated this effect in the frequently used blocked-cyclic naming task in which stimuli are presented repeatedly either sorted by semantic category (homogeneous context) or intermixed (heterogeneous context). Previous blocked-cyclic naming studies have shown slower picture naming responses in the homogeneous context. Our study compared this context effect in two task versions, picture naming and sound naming. Target words were identical across task versions (e.g., participants responded with the word “dog” to either the picture of that animal or to the sound [barking] produced by it). We found semantic interference in the homogeneous context also with sounds and the effect was substantially larger than with pictures (Experiments 1 and 2). This difference is unlikely to result from extended perceptual processing of sounds as compared to pictures (Experiments 3 and 4) or from stronger links between pictures and object names than between sounds and object names (Experiment 5). Overall, our results show that semantic context effects in blocked-cyclic naming generalize to stimulus types other than pictures and – in part – also reflect pre-lexical processes that depend on the nature of the stimuli used for eliciting the naming responses