ERIC Number: EJ1420276
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 24
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ISSN: ISSN-0278-7393
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Semantic Richness Effects in Isolated Spoken Word Recognition: Evidence from Massive Auditory Lexical Decision
Filip Nenadic; Ryan G. Podlubny; Daniel Schmidtke; Matthew C. Kelley; Benjamin V. Tucker
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v50 n4 p650-673 2024
While known to influence visual lexical processing, the semantic information we associate with words has recently been found to influence auditory lexical processing as well. The present work explored the influence of "semantic richness" in auditory lexical decision. Study 1 recreated an experiment investigating semantic richness effects in concrete nouns (Goh et al., 2016). In Study 2, we expanded the stimulus set from 442 to 8,626 items, exploring the robustness of effects observed in Study 1 against a larger data set with increased diversity in both word class and other characteristics of interest. We also utilized generalized additive mixed models to investigate potential nonlinear effects. Results indicate that semantic richness effects become more nuanced and detectable when a wider set of items belonging to different parts of speech is examined. Findings are discussed in the context of models of spoken word recognition.
Descriptors: Oral Language, Word Recognition, Semantics, Auditory Stimuli, Visual Stimuli, Speech Communication, Young Adults, College Students, Foreign Countries, Nouns
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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