Judging the animacy of words
- 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.
Author details: | Romy RälingORCiDGND, Sandra HanneORCiDGND, Astrid SchröderGND, Carla Keßler, Isabell WartenburgerORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1223704 |
ISSN: | 1747-0218 |
ISSN: | 1747-0226 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27550541 |
Title of parent work (English): | Quarterly journal of experimental psychology |
Subtitle (English): | The influence of typicality and age of acquisition in a semantic decision task |
Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2017/10/01 |
Publication year: | 2017 |
Release date: | 2024/05/06 |
Tag: | Age of acquisition; Animacy decision; Semantic classification task; Typicality |
Volume: | 70 |
Issue: | 10 |
Number of pages: | 11 |
First page: | 2094 |
Last Page: | 2104 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 305 |