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Semantic facilitation of lexical access during sentence processing.

S A Duffy1, J M Henderson, R K Morris

  • 1Department of Psychology, Amherst College, Massachusetts 01002.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|September 1, 1989
PubMed
Summary

Sentence context influences word naming speed. Even without individual word priming, combined words in a sentence context can facilitate target word recognition, independent of overall sentence meaning.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Experimental Psychology

Background:

  • Understanding how sentence context affects word processing is crucial for psycholinguistics.
  • Previous research has explored lexical priming, but the role of combined lexical items in sentence context requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of sentence context on target word naming time.
  • To determine if combined lexical items can prime a target word even when individual items do not.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments utilized rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) to present sentence contexts.
  • Participants were instructed to name the final word of each presented sentence.
  • Contextual congruency and the relationship between subject, verb, and target word were manipulated.

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Main Results:

  • Facilitation in naming time was observed for fully congruent contexts with weakly related subject-verb pairs.
  • No facilitation occurred when subjects or verbs were replaced with neutral words.
  • Facilitation persisted even when the original subject-verb relationship was disrupted or preserved in modified contexts.

Conclusions:

  • A combination of lexical items within a sentence context can prime a target word.
  • This 'combination priming' effect occurs independently of individual lexical item priming.
  • The findings suggest that sentence-level contextual priming is not solely dependent on the overall semantic meaning of the sentence.