Information provided by the linguistic context has been shown to have a strong facilitatory effect on the activation and processing of upcoming words. The studies described in this paper aim to model the relation between context and target words using a distributional semantic model. We report three modelling studies in which we show that this model can successfully capture context effects in h...

Abstract To investigate how orthography and semantics interact during bilingual visual word recognition, Dutch–English bilinguals made lexical decisions in two masked priming experiments. Dutch primes English targets were presented that either neighbour cognates (boek – BOOK), noncognate translations (kooi CAGE), orthographically related neighbours (neus NEWS), or unrelated words (huid - COAT)....

There are conflicting views in the literature as to the role of listener-adaptive processes in language production in general and articulatory reduction in particular. We present two novel pieces of corpus evidence that corroborate the hypothesis that non-lexical variation of durations is related to the speed of retrieval of stored motor code chunks and durational reduction is the result of fac...