Is the homophone advantage influenced by post-lexical effects?
(2018) Cortex — Vol. 108, n° 2018, p. 283-286 (2018)
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- Homophones are words that share pronunciations but have different meanings. Experiments eliciting spoken homophones provide crucial insights into the nature of the processing in spoken word production. It has been hypothesised that homophones may share a phonological word form (e.g., Dell, 1990, Levelt et al., 1999) or may be represented as separate lexical entities (e.g., Caramazza, 1997), with implications for the broader question of whether there are one (word form) or two (word form and lemma) levels of lexical representation in spoken word production. In two previous studies (Biedermann and Nickels, 2008a, Biedermann and Nickels, 2008b), FME, a speaker with aphasia, underwent treatment for impaired picture naming using homographic (same spelling) and heterographic (different spelling) noun homophones. With treatment of one homophone partner (e.g., seal [animal]; flower), both the treated and the untreated homophones improved (e.g., seal [animal] and seal [crest]; flower and flour), but untreated phonologically related controls (e.g., seat and floor) did not. Biedermann and Nickels, 2008a, Biedermann and Nickels, 2008b interpreted this as evidence for shared phonological word forms for homophones, and, by extension, a two-step account of lexical access in spoken production, rejecting the hypothesis of separate homophone representations at the word form level.
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School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Australia ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University, Australia Department of Linguistics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany Department of Linguistics, Bielefeld University, Germany School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Australia Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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Biedermann, B., Cholin, J., Jorschick, A., Croot, K., Hameau, S., & Nickels, L. (2018). Is the homophone advantage influenced by post-lexical effects? Cortex, 108(2018), 283-286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.01.014 (Original work published 2018)