Cascading activation across levels of representation in children's lexical processing.

Development of cascading activation 0 0 Cascading activation across levels of representation in children’s lexical processing

Acknowledgments: We would like to thank Jessica Hoy and Charlotte Distefano for their assistance in data collection and coding. We are also grateful to the children and teachers at the McGlynn Elementary School in Medford, MA for their participation in this study. Abstract Recent work in adult psycholinguistics has demonstrated that activation of semantic representations begins long before phon...

The Effect of Semantic Transfer on Iranian EFL Learners’ Lexical Representation and Processing

Interaction and representational integration: evidence from speech errors.

We examine the mechanisms that support interaction between lexical, phonological and phonetic processes during language production. Studies of the phonetics of speech errors have provided evidence that partially activated lexical and phonological representations influence phonetic processing. We examine how these interactive effects are modulated by lexical frequency. Previous research has demo...

Limited Interaction 1 Running Head: LIMITED INTERACTION Limited Interaction in Speech Production: Chronometric, Speech Error, and Neuropsychological Evidence

Results from chronometric and speech errors studies provide convergent evidence for both lower and upper bounds on interaction within the speech production system. Some degree of cascading activation is required to account for patterns of speech errors in neurologically intact and impaired speakers as well as the results of recent chronometric studies. However, the strength of this form of inte...

First Language Activation during Second Language Lexical Processing in a Sentential Context

 Lexicalization-patterns, the way words are mapped onto concepts, differ from one language      to another. This study investigated the influence of first language (L1) lexicalization patterns on the processing of second language (L2) words in sentential contexts by both less proficient and more proficient Persian learners of English. The focus was on cases where two different senses of a polys...