Factors affecting object and action naming were compared in a timed picture-naming paradigm, for drawings of 520 objects and 275 actions, named by adult native speakers of English. Massive differences between object and action naming were observed for all dependent variables, and theoretically relevant differences emerged in the variables that predict retrieval of nouns vs. verbs in this task. ...

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 di...

Three cued-recall experiments examined the effect of category typicality on the ordering of words in sentence production. Past research has found that typical items tend to be mentioned before atypical items in a phrase--a pattern usually associated with lexical variables (like word frequency), and yet typicality is a conceptual variable. Experiment 1 revealed that an appropriate conceptual fra...

Previous research has consistently shown differences between the processing of proper names and of common nouns, leading to the belief that proper names possess a special neuropsychological status. We investigate the category of brand names and suggest that brand names also have a special neuropsychological status, but one which is different from proper names. The findings suggest that the hemi...

Masked translation priming between languages with different scripts exhibits a marked asymmetry in lexical decision, with much stronger priming from L1 to L2 than from L2 to L1. This finding was confirmed in a lexical decision task with Chinese–English bilinguals who were late learners of English. Following a suggestion made by Bradley (1991), the experiment was repeated using a speeded episodi...

We describe Castanet, an algorithm for automatically generating hierarchical faceted metadata from textual descriptions of items, to be incorporated into browsing and navigation interfaces for large information collections. From an existing lexical database (such as WordNet), Castanet carves out a structure that reflects the contents of the target information collection; moderate manual modific...

This article describes and discusses some properties of the distribution Negative Concord Items (NCIs) in Italo-Romance domain, taking into account both varieties Italian other languages. More precisely, authors examine non-negative contexts, which allow presence NCIs. Across all bare/pronominal NCIs are systematically allowed more contexts than complex ones, modulo behavior specific variety re...