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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 86-90Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.01424
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R03MH061318, R01MH064733] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH-64733, R03 MH-061318] Funding Source: Medline
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Speakers produce words to convey meaning, but does meaning alone determine which words they say? We report three experiments that show independent semantic and phonological influences converging to determine word selection. Speakers named pictures (e.g., of a priest) following visually presented cloze sentences that printed either semantic competitors of the target object name (The woman went to the convent to become a...), homophones of the competitors (I thought that there would still be some cookies left, but there were...), or matched unrelated control object names. Primed semantic competitors (nun) were produced instead of picture names more often than primed unrelated control object names, showing the well-documented influence of semantic similarity on lexical selection. Surprisingly, pruned homophone competitors (none) also substituted for picture names more often than control object names even though they only sounded like competitors. Thus, independent semantic and phonological influences can converge to affect word selection.
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