Sentence Context Modulates Orthographic Neighborhood Effects

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian M. Friel ◽  
Richard J. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Sentence Context ◽  
Orthographic Neighborhood

The Sound of Enemies and Friends in the Neighborhood

2011 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 454-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Pecher ◽  
Inge Boot ◽  
Saskia van Dantzig ◽  
Carol J. Madden ◽  
David E. Huber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Visual Word Recognition ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Classification Performance ◽  
Visual Word ◽  
Orthographic Neighborhood ◽  
Semantic Classification ◽  
Semantic Class ◽  
Orthographic Neighbors ◽  
Target Words

Previous studies (e.g., Pecher, Zeelenberg, & Wagenmakers, 2005) found that semantic classification performance is better for target words with orthographic neighbors that are mostly from the same semantic class (e.g., living) compared to target words with orthographic neighbors that are mostly from the opposite semantic class (e.g., nonliving). In the present study we investigated the contribution of phonology to orthographic neighborhood effects by comparing effects of phonologically congruent orthographic neighbors (book-hook) to phonologically incongruent orthographic neighbors (sand-wand). The prior presentation of a semantically congruent word produced larger effects on subsequent animacy decisions when the previously presented word was a phonologically congruent neighbor than when it was a phonologically incongruent neighbor. In a second experiment, performance differences between target words with versus without semantically congruent orthographic neighbors were larger if the orthographic neighbors were also phonologically congruent. These results support models of visual word recognition that assume an important role for phonology in cascaded access to meaning.

Inhibitory Orthographic Neighborhood Effects during Reading in Chinese

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon P. Liversedge ◽  
Jingxin Wang ◽  
Jing Tian ◽  
Weijin Han ◽  
Kevin B. Paterson
Keyword(s):  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Orthographic Neighborhood

Orthographic Neighborhood Effects in Bilingual Word Recognition

1998 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 458-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter J.B. van Heuven ◽  
Ton Dijkstra ◽  
Jonathan Grainger
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Orthographic Neighborhood

Orthographic neighborhood effects in reading Chinese two-character words

Neuroreport ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 1061-1065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsu-Wen Huang ◽  
Chia-Ying Lee ◽  
Jie-Li Tsai ◽  
Chia-Lin Lee ◽  
Daisy L. Hung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Orthographic Neighborhood ◽  
Reading Chinese

Evidence for Cross-Language Orthographic Neighborhood Effects in Balanced Bilinguals

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
He Pu ◽  
Katherine J. Midgley ◽  
Phillip J. Holcomb ◽  
Jonathan Grainger
Keyword(s):  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Orthographic Neighborhood ◽  
Cross Language

scholarly journals Speech Perception: Phonological Neighborhood Effects on Word Recognition Persist Despite Semantic Sentence Context

2019 ◽  
Vol 126 (6) ◽  
pp. 1047-1057
Author(s):  
Teresa Cervera-Crespo ◽  
Julio González-Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Sentence Context ◽  
Neighborhood Density ◽  
Neighborhood Frequency ◽  
Frequency Occurrence ◽  
Phonological Neighborhood ◽  
Linear Logistic Model ◽  
Target Words

This study tested the hypothesis that two lexical properties, both phonological neighborhood density (ND) and neighborhood frequency (NF), influence the recognition of target words when preceded by either a semantically congruent or semantically neutral context. Our study is the first to test this hypothesis using a language other than English (i.e., Spanish). We used highly familiar bisyllabic nouns with medium-frequency occurrence as target words, and we expected recognition accuracy to increase as ND and NF decreased in both semanticallly congruent and semantically neutral sentences. We presented 48 undergraduate listeners with a set of 80 words, differing in ND and NF, within these two sentence contexts (i.e., 160 sentences). We then tested the relationships between ND, NF, and variations in semantic sentence context within a linear logistic model and found that words with a low frequency of neighbors were more likely to be correctly recognized in both sentence contexts. Thus, during word recognition, the influence of phonological competition outweighed semantic sentence context even when words were presented in Spanish.

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