Is phonological information mapped onto semantic information in a one-to-one manner?

Bölte, J. & Coenen, E.

Abstract

Spoken word recognition models have to explain the influence or mismatching information on lexical activation. The effect of mismatching information is usually addressed with cross-modal semantic priming experiments using pruning effects as a measure Of the degree of lexical activation. Pseudowords phonologically related to a semantic associate of the target, e.g., *domato-PAPRIKA, serve as primes. Mismatch effects at the word form level are supposed to percolate unaltered to the semantic level. We show that cross-modal semantic priming might underestimate activation at the word form level, Targets (e.g., PAPRIKA) were preceded by either phonologically related pseudoword primes (e.g., *baprika) or semantically related pseudoword primes (e.g., *domato). Different priming and RT patterns were obtained for the two priming relations. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).

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