DR Noriko Iwasaki ni3@soas.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Language Pedagogy
Naming action in Japanese: Effects of semantic similarity and grammatical class
Iwasaki, Noriko; Vinson, David P.; Vigliocco, Gabriella; Watanabe, Masumi; Arciuli, Joanne
Authors
David P. Vinson
Gabriella Vigliocco
Masumi Watanabe
Joanne Arciuli
Abstract
This study investigated whether the semantic similarity and grammatical class of distracter words affects the naming of pictured actions (verbs) in Japanese. Three experiments used the picture-word interference paradigm with partici-
pants naming picturable actions while ignoring distracters. In all three experiments, we manipulated the semantic similarity between distracters and targets (similar vs. dissimilar verbs) and the grammatical class of semantically
dissimilar distracters (verbs, verbal nouns, and also nouns in Experiment 3) in addition to task demands (single word naming vs. phrase/sentence generation). While Experiment 1 used visually presented distracters, Experiment 2 and 3
used auditory distracter words to rule out possible confounding factors of orthography (kanji vs. hiragana). We found the same results for all three experiments: robust semantic interference in the absence of any effects of
grammatical class. We discuss the lack of grammatical class effects in terms of structural characteristics of the Japanese language.
Citation
Iwasaki, N., Vinson, D. P., Vigliocco, G., Watanabe, M., & Arciuli, J. (2008). Naming action in Japanese: Effects of semantic similarity and grammatical class. Language and cognitive processes, 23(6), 889-930. https://doi.org/10.1080/01690960801916196
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jan 1, 2008 |
Deposit Date | Feb 13, 2009 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 2, 2108 |
Journal | Language and Cognitive Processes |
Print ISSN | 0169-0965 |
Electronic ISSN | 1464-0732 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 23 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 889-930 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/01690960801916196 |
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