The Role of Visual Form in Lexical Access: Evidence from Chinese Classifier Production

Autor/inn/en	Bi, Yanchao; Yu, Xi; Geng, Jingyi; Alario, F. -Xavier.
Titel	The Role of Visual Form in Lexical Access: Evidence from Chinese Classifier Production
Quelle	In: Cognition, 116 (2010) 1, S.101-109 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2010.04.004
Schlagwörter	Semantics; Nouns; Cognitive Processes; Semiotics; Language Processing; Experiments; Chinese; Word Recognition; Classification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Semantik; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Semiotik; Sprachverarbeitung; Erprobung; China; Chinesen; Worterkennung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem
Abstract	The interface between the conceptual and lexical systems was investigated in a word production setting. We tested the effects of two conceptual dimensions--semantic category and visual shape--on the selection of Chinese nouns and classifiers. Participants named pictures with nouns ("rope") or classifier-noun phrases ("one-"classifier"-rope") in three blocked picture naming experiments. In Experiment 1, we observed larger semantic category interference with phrases than with nouns, suggesting comparable semantic categorical effects on classifier and noun selection. In Experiments 2 and 3, items with similar shapes produced an interference effect when they were named with classifier-noun phrases, but not with bare nouns. This indicates that object shape modulates classifier (but not noun) selection. We conclude that object shape properties can by themselves influence word selection processes just as semantic relationships (captured by semantic category) do. The factors operating during word selection may be more diverse than has been previously thought. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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