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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience
  • Sign Language Linguistics

Background:

  • Lexical access, the process of retrieving words for communication, is crucial for language production.
  • Understanding lexical access across different modalities, such as spoken and signed languages, offers insights into universal and modality-specific cognitive mechanisms.
  • Previous research has explored factors influencing sign production, but a comprehensive analysis across modalities and participant groups is needed.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of psycholinguistic variables and electroencephalography (ERP) amplitudes on lexical access in both signed and oral language production.
  • To compare modality-specific and general determinants of lexical access in deaf and hearing signers.
  • To examine how factors like sign iconicity and word frequency impact signing and naming latencies.

Main Methods:

  • Reanalysis of existing data from deaf and hearing signers performing picture signing and word-to-sign translation tasks.
  • Analysis of signing and naming latencies in relation to psycholinguistic variables (e.g., sign iconicity, word frequency).
  • Correlation of ERP mean amplitudes preceding response with lexical access latencies.

Main Results:

  • Deaf signers' signing latencies were affected by sign iconicity (picture signing) and spoken psycholinguistic variables (translation task).
  • ERP amplitudes influenced signing latencies in deaf signers but not translation latencies.
  • Hearing signers' signing and naming latencies were influenced by sign iconicity and word frequency, with early ERPs predicting naming latencies.

Conclusions:

  • Lexical access in language production is shaped by both general cognitive principles and modality-specific factors.
  • Sign iconicity plays a significant role in lexical access for signers, particularly in production tasks.
  • ERP data provides insights into the temporal dynamics of lexical access, with modality-specific effects observed.