The paca that roared: Immediate cumulative semantic interference among newly acquired words

Cumulative semantic interference as learning

When aphasic individuals name pictures in a blocked-cyclic naming paradigm, they produce more semantic and omission errors when the repeatedly named items come from a single semantic category, relative to when the items are from different categories, an effect known as cumulative semantic interference. This effect is magnified in Broca’s aphasics and increases as patients repeatedly cycle throu...

Restenosis: the mouse that roared.

Language production in a shared task: Cumulative Semantic Interference from self- and other-produced context words.

This study assessed the effects of semantic context in the form of self-produced and other-produced words on subsequent language production. Pairs of participants performed a joint picture naming task, taking turns while naming a continuous series of pictures. In the single-speaker version of this paradigm, naming latencies have been found to increase for successive presentations of exemplars f...

Prosodic knowledge affects the recognition of newly acquired words.

An eye-tracking study examined the involvement of prosodic knowledge--specifically, the knowledge that monosyllabic words tend to have longer durations than the first syllables of polysyllabic words--in the recognition of newly learned words. Participants learned new spoken words (by associating them to novel shapes): bisyllables and onset-embedded monosyllabic competitors (e.g., baptoe and bap...

semantic interference of synonymous words in the jāhilliya literature and the qur‘ānic terms

synonymy is a common phenomenon among different languages. the linguists of the world have had various views about it. thus, first this issue is put to survey among arabic linguists and then its scope in the holy qur’ān is discussed. the phenomenon of synonymy has its proponents and opponents, each having their own reasons. this disagreement stems from the lack of a comprehensive and exclusive ...