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Comparing the Frequency Effect Between the Lexical Decision and Naming Tasks in Chinese

Comparing the Frequency Effect Between the Lexical Decision and Naming Tasks in Chinese

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Terminating and exhaustive search in lexical access.

K I Forster¹, E S Bednall

¹Department of Psychology, Monash University, 3168, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.

Memory & Cognition

|February 3, 2011

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Lexical access research reveals that searching for nonexistent words triggers an exhaustive search, unlike typical word recognition. This suggests distinct mechanisms for accessing common versus uncommon meanings of homographs.

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Area of Science:

Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Psychology
Computational Linguistics

Background:

Lexical access, the process of retrieving stored word information, is fundamental to language comprehension.
Previous models often assume a search process for word recognition, but its exact nature, especially for ambiguous words, remains debated.
Homographs, words spelled identically but with different meanings, present a unique challenge for lexical access models.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the search process during lexical access, particularly for homographs.
To determine if lexical access involves an exhaustive search, especially when encountering non-existent entries.
To explore how word frequency influences decision time in lexical access under different search conditions.

Main Methods:

Two experiments were conducted involving word classification tasks.
Experiment 1: Participants classified test items as ambiguous or unambiguous.
Experiment 2: Participants classified test items based on their syntactic properties.

Main Results:

Both experiments demonstrated that searching for non-existent word entries involved an exhaustive search process.
Under these non-existent entry conditions, word frequency did not correlate with decision time, deviating from typical lexical decision tasks.
The findings suggest that the search model effectively explains accessing the dominant meaning of homographs.

Conclusions:

The study provides evidence for an exhaustive search mechanism in lexical access when dealing with non-existent entries.
A distinction is proposed for how common versus less common meanings of homographs are accessed.
The findings challenge a single, uniform search model for all aspects of homograph processing.