Do elevators compete with lifts?: Selecting dialect alternatives

Recently, Melinger (2018) demonstrated that translation equivalent dialectal words compete for selection in a way from non-target language do not. She argued are stored as within-language representations. However, Dylman and Barry showed synonyms behave like between-language equivalents, calling Melinger's interpretation into question. The aim of the present study is to compare non-dialectal distractor effects with same experimental design elaborate our understanding how lexical items retrieved during production. In two experiments, American equivalents slowed British picture naming times, replicating findings (2018). third experiment, synonymous did not slow A proposal couched within Swinging Lexical Network approach proposed explain discrepant findings.