People who are asked to classify whether words presented visually belong to the category of animals respond to nonwords derived from animal names more slowly than they do to nonwords derived from nonanimal names. This is known as the turple effect (Forster, 2006; Forster & Hector, 2002). In the present article, we show that the turple effect is modulated by the frequency of the animal names from which the nonwords are derived: In particular, we show that nonwords derived from high-frequency animal names are rejected faster than those derived from low-frequency ani- mal names. We discuss the implications of this result for two approaches to lexical and semantic access modeling.
The turple effect is modulated by base word frequency: Implications for models of lexical and semantic access
MULATTI, CLAUDIO;PERESSOTTI, FRANCESCA;
2008
Abstract
People who are asked to classify whether words presented visually belong to the category of animals respond to nonwords derived from animal names more slowly than they do to nonwords derived from nonanimal names. This is known as the turple effect (Forster, 2006; Forster & Hector, 2002). In the present article, we show that the turple effect is modulated by the frequency of the animal names from which the nonwords are derived: In particular, we show that nonwords derived from high-frequency animal names are rejected faster than those derived from low-frequency ani- mal names. We discuss the implications of this result for two approaches to lexical and semantic access modeling.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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