We evaluated whether lexical selection in speech production is affected by word frequency by means of two experiments. In Experiment 1 participants named pictures using utterances with the structure "pronoun + verb + adjective". In Experiment 2 participants had to perform a gender decision task on the same pictures. Access to the noun's grammatical gender is needed in both tasks, and therefore ...

The two-stage theory of lexical production distinguishes the retrieval of lemmas from the subsequent retrieval of the forms of words. The information made available by lemma retrieval includes semantic and grammatical details that are specific to a particular word, but not the direct specification of its phonological or orthographic form. This theory makes very strong predictions regarding the ...

In this paper we calculate and analyse the lexical ambiguity of queries in a crosslingual Image Retrieval (Flickling) and compare it with the results obtained by users. We want to know to what extent the lexical ambiguity of a query influences the correct localization of an image in a multilingual framework. With this, our final objective is to determine the necessity of Word Sense Disambiguati...

OBJECTIVE Individuals with dyslexia do not only show deficits reading but are also less accurate in naming pictures. This has mainly been linked to prevalent phonological deficits. However, lexical retrieval of picture names could be due increased lexical-semantic competition. The present study tested whether adults (AwDs) more affected by a competitive context than control participants. METHOD...

The goal of this longitudinal study was to examine how lexical quality predicts the emergence of literacy abilities in 169 Dutch kindergarten children before formal reading instruction has started. At the beginning of the school year, a battery of precursor measures associated with lexical quality was related to the emergence of letter knowledge and word decoding. Confirmatory factor analysis e...

This paper is concerned with the lexical knowledge retrieval system created at the Linguistic Modelling Laboratory. The main goal of the system is to provide a powerful and comfortable interface for lexical knowledge retrieval from large morphological dictionary. To achieve this a constraint based approach is applied that leads to a very eeective algorithm. The algorithm for query building, whi...

There has been increasing interest in utilizing corpora in linguistic research and pedagogy in recent years. Rhetorical organization of different sections of research articles may appear similar in various disciplines, but close examination may show subtle differences nonetheless. One of the features that has been at the center of attention especially in recent years is the idiomaticity of a di...