Pragmatic constraints do not prevent the co-activation of alternative names: evidence from sequential naming tasks with one and two speakers

We investigated whether the phonological co-activation of alternative names in picture naming (e.g. “fish” for target “shark”) is reduced by contextual constraints which render them inappropriate. In the constraining context, the target naming response was preceded by a naming response to an object...

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Autores: Mädebach, Andreas, Kurtz, Franziska, Schriefers, Herbert, Jescheniak, Jörg D.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/46893
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46893
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2020.1727539
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Speech production
Lexical access
Picture-word interference
Context effects
Joint naming
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Sumario:We investigated whether the phonological co-activation of alternative names in picture naming (e.g. “fish” for target “shark”) is reduced by contextual constraints which render them inappropriate. In the constraining context, the target naming response was preceded by a naming response to an object from the same category (e.g. an eel) which remained visible during target naming. Therefore, use of the alternative target name “fish” would result (a) in an ambiguous response because of the visual context and (b) in a pragmatically odd response because of the previous naming response. In Experiment 1 the context pictures were named by the participants themselves and in Experiment 2 by a communication partner. In both experiments, interference from distractor words phonologically related (“finger”) versus unrelated (“book”) to the alternative name was observed regardless of context. This finding indicates limited flexibility in lexical activation during speech planning.