TY  - JOUR
A1  - Räling, Romy
A1  - Hanne, Sandra
A1  - Schröder, Astrid
A1  - Keßler, Carla
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
T1  - Judging the animacy of words
BT  - The influence of typicality and age of acquisition in a semantic decision task
JF  - Quarterly journal of experimental psychology
N2  - The age at which members of a semantic category are learned (age of acquisition), the typicality they demonstrate within their corresponding category, and the semantic domain to which they belong (living, non-living) are known to influence the speed and accuracy of lexical/semantic processing. So far, only a few studies have looked at the origin of age of acquisition and its interdependence with typicality and semantic domain within the same experimental design. Twenty adult participants performed an animacy decision task in which nouns were classified according to their semantic domain as being living or non-living. Response times were influenced by the independent main effects of each parameter: typicality, age of acquisition, semantic domain, and frequency. However, there were no interactions. The results are discussed with respect to recent models concerning the origin of age of acquisition effects.
KW  - Age of acquisition
KW  - Animacy decision
KW  - Semantic classification task
KW  - Typicality
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1223704
SN  - 1747-0218
SN  - 1747-0226
VL  - 70
IS  - 10
SP  - 2094
EP  - 2104
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -