Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: Recognizing spoken words involves lexical competition.A newly learned word will engage in competition with existing words that share its onset (e.g. the novel word 'cathedruke' will compete with 'cathedral'), as measured by increased recognition times to the existing word (Gaskell & Dumay, 2003).We sought to replicate this finding in a longitudinal design where the effects of lexical competition were followed up over the course of eight months.Novel words were taught at different points in time, allowing us to vary, on a small scale, the age of acquisition (AoA) of the novel items.Robust lexical representations emerged for the novel words, and remained competitors to existing words throughout the study.A dissociation in AoA effects between lexical competition and naming also emerged.
Authors: M. Gareth Gaskell, Jakke Tamminen
Institution: University of York
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2621060234