Word Frequency and Age of Acquisition as Determiners of Picture-Naming Latency

In multiple-regression analysis of picture-naming latencies from an experiment modelled on Oldfield and Wingfield's (1965), with 94 stimuli and 37 adult subjects, two word frequency measures had insignificant beta weights, while two measures estimating age at which the word was learned had highly significant weights. Objects whose names were learned early were named faster. This result may have important implications for the interpretation of studies using word frequency as a critical variable. It is suggested that word retrieval may be a one-stage process that depends upon the age at which a word was learned.

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Naming latencies as evidence for two modes of lexical retrieval

Applied Psycholinguistics ◽

10.1017/s014271640000494x ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 135-146 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Harold Goodglass ◽

Jean C. Theurkauf ◽

Arthur Wingfield

Keyword(s):

Item Difficulty ◽

Naming Latency ◽

Word Retrieval ◽

Lexical Retrieval ◽

Primary Interest ◽

Response Latencies ◽

Two Measures ◽

Latency Distributions ◽

Search Modes ◽

Naming Latencies

ABSTRACTData are reported for response latencies to naming pictures of objects which show a systematic relationship between naming latency and two measures of item difficulty. Of primary interest was a reanalysis of full latency distributions on a picture-by-picture basis to explore the possibility that overall mean latencies could in actuality be composed of multiple independent latency populations. Results are discussed in terms of “automatic” versus “voluntary search” modes of word retrieval.

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Picture-naming agreement in monolingulas and biliguals

Applied Psycholinguistics ◽

10.1017/s0142716400005312 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 177-193 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Judith P. Goggin ◽

Patricia Estrada ◽

Ronald P. Villarreal

Keyword(s):

Word Frequency ◽

Picture Naming ◽

Word Length ◽

Age Of Acquisition ◽

Language Skill ◽

Frequency Word ◽

Line Drawings ◽

Name Agreement ◽

The Relationship

ABSTRACTName agreement in Spanish and English in response to 264 pictures was assessed in monolinguals and in bilinguals, who varied in rated skill in the two languages. Most of the pictures were adapted from a standardized set of line drawings of common objects (Snodgrass & Vanderwart, 1980). Name agreement decreased as language skill decreased, and agreement was lower when labels were given in Spanish rather than in English. The relationship between name agreement and word frequency, word length, and (in the case of English) age of acquisition was assessed; both word frequency and word length were found to be related to agreement. Modal responses given by monolingual subjects were nearly identical in the two languages, and the types of non-modal responses were affected by both naming language and language skill.

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Effects of structural similarity and name frequency on picture naming in Alzheimer's disease

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society ◽

10.1017/s1355617799577084 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 5 (7) ◽

pp. 659-667 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

SHARON L. THOMPSON-SCHILL ◽

JOHN D. E. GABRIELI ◽

DEBRA A. FLEISCHMAN

Keyword(s):

Alzheimer’S Disease ◽

Alzheimer's Disease ◽

Picture Naming ◽

Early Stage ◽

Naming Latency ◽

Structural Similarity ◽

Word Retrieval ◽

Perceptual Processing ◽

Retrieval Processes ◽

Confrontation Naming

Impairments to either perceptual or word-retrieval processes have been hypothesized to explain confrontation naming impairments in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). This study measured the effects of structural similarity, which affects perceptual processing, and name frequency, which affects word retrieval, on naming latency and accuracy in 16 AD patients and 16 age-matched controls. AD patients named pictures more slowly and made more errors than control participants. Their naming accuracy was disproportionately affected by name frequency, but not by structural similarity. The findings indicate that the processing of structural properties of objects is unaffected in early-stage AD, and suggest that word-retrieval impairments underlie the naming deficit in AD. (JINS, 1999, 5, 659–667.)

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Age of Acquisition, Ageing, and Verb Production: Normative and Experimental Data

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A ◽

10.1080/02724980244000594 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 56 (4) ◽

pp. 1-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Catriona M. Morrison ◽

Katherine W. Hirsh ◽

Geoffrey B. Duggan

Keyword(s):

Experimental Data ◽

Older Adults ◽

Multiple Regression ◽

Word Frequency ◽

Picture Naming ◽

Significant Contribution ◽

Lexical Processing ◽

Age Of Acquisition ◽

Naming Speed ◽

Old Adults

Young and old adults were shown pictured or written verbs and asked to name them as quickly as possible. Simultaneous multiple regression was used to investigate which of a set of potential variables predicted naming speed. Age of acquisition was found to be an important predictor of naming speed in both young and old adults, and for both word and picture naming. Word frequency predicted picture-naming speed only in older adults and failed to make any significant contribution to word-naming speeds for either group of participants. The respective loci and roles of age of acquisition and frequency in lexical processing are discussed in the light of these findings.

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Effects of Age of Acquisition, Word Frequency, and Familiarity on Object Recognition and Naming in Dementia

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1998.87.2.573 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 87 (2) ◽

pp. 573-574 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Robert Taylor

Keyword(s):

Object Recognition ◽

Word Frequency ◽

Naming Latency ◽

Age Of Acquisition ◽

Recognition Failure ◽

Normal People ◽

Confrontation Naming ◽

General Frequency ◽

Naming Test

116 patients with established dementia completed a short confrontation naming test. Naming latency correlated -.69 (Kendall τ, p<.001) with general frequency of the name of the object. Recognition failure correlated .53 with age of acquisition of the name and —.58 with familiarity of the object. These and other correlations are not in accord with recent findings from studies of normal people. More extensive studies of these relationships in dementia, where disorders of recognition and naming are common, would be informative.

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Joint language production: an electrophysiological investigation of simulated lexical access on behalf of task partner

10.1101/2020.09.18.303099 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Anna K. Kuhlen ◽

Rasha Abdel Rahman

Keyword(s):

Lexical Access ◽

Joint Action ◽

Picture Naming ◽

Language Production ◽

Naming Latency ◽

Semantic Category ◽

Electrophysiological Investigation ◽

Semantic Interference ◽

Naming Response ◽

Naming Latencies

AbstractThis study investigates in a joint action setting a well-established effect in speech production, cumulative semantic interference, an increase in naming latencies when naming a series of semantically related pictures. In a joint action setting, two task partners take turns naming pictures. Previous work in this setting demonstrated that naming latencies increase not only with each semantically related picture speakers named themselves, but also with each picture named by the partner (Hoedemaker, Ernst, Meyer, & Belke, 2017; Kuhlen & Abdel Rahman, 2017). This suggests that speakers pursue lexical access on behalf of their partner. In two electrophysiological experiments (N=30 each) we investigated the neuro-cognitive signatures of such simulated lexical access. As expected, in both experiments speakers’ naming latency increased with successive naming instances within a given semantic category. Correspondingly, speakers’ EEG showed an increasing posterior positivity between 250-400ms, an ERP modulation typically associated with lexical access. However, unlike previous experiments, speakers were not influenced by their partner’s picture naming. Accordingly, we found no electrophysiological evidence of lexical access on behalf of the partner. We conclude that speakers do not always represent their partner’s naming response and discuss possible factors that may have limited the participants’ evaluation of the task as a joint action.

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