More on Lexical Bias: How Efficient Can a "Lexical Editor" Be?

ABSTRACT: The lexical bias effect (the tendency for phonological speech errors to create words more often than nonwords) has been debated for over 30 years. One account attributes the effect to a lexical editor, a strategic component of the production system that examines each planned phonological string, and suppresses it if it is a nonword. The alternative explanation is that the effect occurs automatically as a result of phonological-lexical feedback. Using a new paradigm, we explicitly asked participants to do lexical editing on their planned speech and compared performance on this inner lexical decision task to results obtained from the standard lexical decision task in three subsequent experiments. Our experimentally created "lexical editor" needed 300 ms to recognize and suppress nonwords, as

SUBMITTER: Nozari N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2746698 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature