Mediated and convergent lexical priming in language production: a comment on Levelt et al. (1991) |
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Authors: | G S Dell P G O'Seaghdha |
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Institution: | Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801. |
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Abstract: | Levelt et al. (1991) argued that modular semantic and phonological stage theories of lexical access in language production are to be preferred over interactive spreading-activation theories (e.g., Dell, 1986). As evidence, they show no mediated semantic-phonological priming during picture naming: Retrieval of sheep primes goat, but the activation of goat is not transmitted to its phonological relative, goal. This research reconciles this result with spreading-activation theories and shows how the absence of mediated priming coexists with the convergent priming necessary to account for mixed semantic-phonological speech errors. The analysis leads to the proposal that the language-production system may best be characterized as globally modular but locally interactive. |
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