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Conceptual relations compete during auditory and visual compound word recognition.

Daniel Schmidtke¹, Christina L Gagné¹, Victor Kuperman²

¹University of Alberta.

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|September 22, 2018

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Compound word recognition involves choosing meanings, with more meaning competition slowing down processing in both auditory and visual tasks. This suggests meaning construction is key, regardless of input modality.

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Background:

Compound word recognition requires selecting a specific meaning from multiple possibilities.
Competition among potential meanings influences how quickly we understand compounds.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the impact of competition between relational meanings on compound word processing.
To determine if this competition effect differs between visual and auditory recognition.

Main Methods:

Collected conceptual relation judgments for 604 English compound words.
Calculated the entropy of conceptual relations as a measure of competition.
Conducted auditory and visual lexical decision tasks to measure processing latencies.

Main Results:

Higher entropy (increased competition) correlated with longer processing times for compounds.
This effect was observed in both auditory and visual lexical decision experiments.
Evidence suggests relational meanings are actively constructed and evaluated during recognition.

Conclusions:

Competition among relational meanings significantly affects compound word recognition speed.
The process of constructing and evaluating meanings is modality-independent (visual vs. auditory).
Findings support theories of dynamic meaning construction in language processing.