How do writing systems shape reading and reading acquisition? Kathy Rastle DOI: 10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0001/000416 Published in ExLing 2020 Children’s syntax: a parametric approach William Snyder DOI: 10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0002/000417 Published in ExLing 2020 A neurophonetic perspective on articulation planning Wolfram Ziegler DOI: 10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0003/000418 Published in ExLing 2020 Masked priming in picture naming and lexical selection Manal Alharbi DOI: 10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0004/000419 Published in ExLing 2020 Syllable rate vs. segment rate in perceived speech rate Yahya Aldholmi DOI: 10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0005/000420 Published in ExLing 2020 Properties of nominal stress grammar in Greek Vasiliki Apostolouda DOI: 10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0006/000421 Published in ExLing 2020 Eliciting focus-sensitive why-questions in Japanese

The study argues that in focus-sensitive why-questions in Japanese, why must precede its focus associate. It is proposed that this word order restriction follows if the why-as-CPmodifier approach is applied to the Japanese construction under investigation. It also reports the results of the elicitation experiment conducted to experimentally confirm the word order restriction.

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Masked priming in picture naming and lexical selection

Proceedings of 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics ◽

10.36505/exling-2020/11/0004/000419 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Manal Alharbi

Keyword(s):

Speech Production ◽

Language Proficiency ◽

Picture Naming ◽

Naming Task ◽

Masked Priming ◽

Lexical Selection ◽

Proficiency Level ◽

Co Activation ◽

Priming Paradigm

Our study focused on the co-activation of lexical nodes in bilinguals’ speech production. We investigated whether the co-activated lexical forms compete for selection or not and whether language proficiency level would modulate the coactivation level in bilinguals. We tested the performance of Arabic-English bilinguals using the masked priming paradigm in a picture naming task. We found that the coactivated lexical forms do not compete for selection and that proficiency level does not affect the process of lexical selection.

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International Society of Experimental Linguistics ExLing 2021 12th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics 11 - 13 October 2021 Athens, Greece Menu Athens: 15:46:27 Brussels: 14:46:27 GMT: 13:46:27 London: 13:46:27 New York: 08:46:27 Tokyo: 22:46:27 ExLing 2020 (58) How do writing systems shape reading and reading acquisition? Kathy Rastle DOI: 10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0001/000416 Published in ExLing 2020 Children’s syntax: a parametric approach William Snyder DOI: 10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0002/000417 Published in ExLing 2020 A neurophonetic perspective on articulation planning Wolfram Ziegler DOI: 10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0003/000418 Published in ExLing 2020 Masked priming in picture naming and lexical selection Manal Alharbi DOI: 10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0004/000419 Published in ExLing 2020 Syllable rate vs. segment rate in perceived speech rate Yahya Aldholmi DOI: 10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0005/000420 Published in ExLing 2020 Properties of nominal stress grammar in Greek Vasiliki Apostolouda DOI: 10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0006/000421 Published in ExLing 2020 Eliciting focus-sensitive why-questions in Japanese Kodai Aramaki, Kanako Ikeda, Kyoko Yamakoshi, Tomohiro Fujii DOI: 10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0007/000422 Published in ExLing 2020 Comprehension of verb directionality in LIS and LSF Valentina Aristodemo, Beatrice Giustolisi, Carlo Cecchetto, Caterina Donati DOI: 10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0008/000423 Published in ExLing 2020 Complex syntax intervention for Developmental Language Impairment

Proceedings of 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics ◽

10.36505/exling-2020/11/0009/000424 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Maria Athanatou ◽

Elena Theodorou

Keyword(s):

Language Impairment ◽

Relative Clauses ◽

Language Disorder ◽

Speech Rate ◽

Masked Priming ◽

Lexical Selection ◽

Complex Sentence ◽

Post Intervention ◽

Syntactic Structures ◽

Experimental Linguistics

Intervention for children with Developmental Language Disorder appears to be beneficial and contributes to sustainable linguistic gains. This paper reports on a pilot intervention study carried out in Cyprus that examined the efficacy of language treatment targeting complex syntactic structures. Language skills of a nine-year old girl with DLD are described at two time points, before and after intervention. The child received therapy sessions based on MetaTaal therapy, and relative clauses were the targeted syntactic structures. Post-intervention measurements showed marginal improvement in relative clauses production and comprehension. Improvements observed in Complex Sentence Repetition Task and this might imply that the grammatical structures have emerged.

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Timing is everything: Exploring competition for lexical selection during picture naming

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e520592012-692 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Meagan T. Farrell ◽

Sabra D. Pelham ◽

Lise Abrams

Keyword(s):

Picture Naming ◽

Lexical Selection

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Is lexical selection in bilingual speech production language-specific? Further evidence from Spanish–English and English–Spanish bilinguals

Bilingualism Language and Cognition ◽

10.1017/s1366728999000334 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 231-244 ◽

Cited By ~ 152

Author(s):

Albert Costa ◽

Alfonso Caramazza

Keyword(s):

Speech Production ◽

Lexical Access ◽

Picture Naming ◽

Facilitatory Effect ◽

Lexical Selection ◽

Bilingual Speakers ◽

L2 Spanish ◽

Naming Latencies ◽

Spanish Bilinguals

In this study we address the question of how lexical selection is achieved by bilingual speakers during speech production. Specifically, we test whether there is competition between the two lexicons of a bilingual during lexical access. In two picture–word interference experiments we explore the performance of two groups of bilinguals, English–Spanish and Spanish–English proficient bilinguals while naming pictures either in their L1 (Spanish) or in their L2 (Spanish). Picture naming was facilitated when the name of the picture and the distracter word were the “same”, regardless of the language in which the distracter was printed: same-language (e.g., mesa–mesa [table in Spanish]) or different-language pairs (e.g., mesa–table). The magnitude of this facilitatory effect was similar when naming in L1 (Experiment 1) and in L2 (Experiment 2). We also found that naming latencies were slower when the distracter word was semantically related to the picture's name (e.g., mesa–chair), regardless of the language in which the distracter was printed. The results suggest that there is no competition between the two lexicons of a bilingual during lexical access for production. This interpretation favors a model of lexical access in which lexical selection is language-specific both when speaking in L1 and in L2.

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Pro-drop and emergent parameter hierarchies

10.1093/oso/9780198815853.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Theresa Biberauer

Keyword(s):

Word Order ◽

Formal Specification ◽

Systematic Variation ◽

Parametric Approach ◽

Word Order Variation ◽

Order Variation ◽

The Way ◽

Formal Features

This chapter considers the extent to which it is still meaningful to conceptualize pro-drop phenomena in parametric terms, introducing a three-factors model in which parameters are emergent, not UG-given. Within this model, it seems possible to distinguish macro, meso, and micro pro-drop systems. The attested systematic variation in even the most familiar instantiations of these putative types, however, raises questions about existing parametric accounts of the acquisition and typological relationship between these systems. Drawing on parallels with a neo-emergentist account of word-order variation, the chapter argues for an approach assuming interdependent parameters (a parameter-hierarchy) where the ‘size’ and precise formal specification of pro-drop in individual grammars is determined by the way the model’s three factors interact, with different formal features playing potentially parallel roles in different systems. The typological picture is thus more variation-rich than previously assumed, but this variation exhibits the kind of cross-linguistic systematicity a parametric approach predicts.

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My Word! Interference from Reading Object Names Implies a Role for Competition during Picture Name Retrieval

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ◽

10.1080/17470218.2012.655699 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 65 (6) ◽

pp. 1229-1240 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Melanie Vitkovitch ◽

Elisa Cooper

Keyword(s):

Picture Naming ◽

Recall Test ◽

Selection Process ◽

Exclusion Process ◽

Unrelated Word ◽

Lexical Selection ◽

Interference Effects ◽

Strategic Processing ◽

Controlled Processing ◽

Main Effect

A related word prime has been found to interfere with picture naming after unrelated intervening trials (word-to-picture interference). Recently, Stroop-type picture–word interference effects have been interpreted in terms of a postlexical response exclusion process rather than a competitive lexical selection process. An experiment is reported that examines whether word-to-picture effects could reflect response exclusion mechanisms and, more generally, strategic processing of the word prime. Forty-eight volunteer university students named aloud sequences of semantically related (and unrelated) word primes and picture targets, separated by two unrelated filler stimuli. On half of the trials, participants were asked to count backwards in threes from a random number presented immediately after naming the prime word. They were also given a surprise recall test at the end of the naming block. Results for naming times and errors indicated a main effect of relatedness; semantic interference effects were not dependent on the unfilled gap following the word prime trial and were also not tied to episodic recall of prime words. The data indicate that slowed picture naming times are more likely to emerge from processes intrinsic to word prime naming rather than controlled processing and do not readily fit the postlexical response exclusion account. The results are considered in relation to two recent accounts of interference over unrelated trials, which refer to some form of competition at, or prior to, lexical access.

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