Priming facilitation was examined under conditions of brief incremental prime exposures (28, 43, 71, and 199 msec) under masked conditions for two types of lexical relationships (associative-semantic pairs, such as "wolf-fox," and semantic-feature pairs, such as "whale-dolphin") and in two tasks (primed lexical decision and semantic categorization). The results of eight experiments revealed, fi...

There is considerable evidence (e.g., Pexman et al., 2008) that semantically rich words, which are associated with relatively more semantic information, are recognized faster across different lexical processing tasks. The present study extends this earlier work by providing the most comprehensive evaluation to date of semantic richness effects on visual word recognition performance. Specificall...

Analyzing the semantic Representations of 5000 Chinese sentences and describing a new sentence analysis method that evaluates semantic preference knowledge, we create a model of semantic representation analysis based on the correspondence between lexical meanings and conceptual structures, and relations that underlie those lexical meanings. We also propose a semantical argument-head relation th...

To what extent does semantic information play a functional role in visual word recognition? Theories of word recognition vary in the importance assigned to semantic information in visual lexical decision, with past research suggesting that the nature of the foils is a crucial determinant of semantic reliance. Here, we explored the conditions under which semantic variables influence lexical deci...

PURPOSE To demonstrate the internal reliability and discriminative validity of the Language Use Inventory for Young Children (LUI; D. K. O'Neill, 2002), a newly developed parent-report measure designed to assess pragmatic language development in 18-47-month-olds. METHOD To examine internal reliability, the LUI was completed by mail by 177 parents recruited from the University of Waterloo's Ce...

Not only do the grammatical and lexical systems of continental Scandinavian sister languages have much in common but also their structural differences are interrelated. The modern Norwegian language (bokmal) has a special group qualitative-attitudinal inflexible adjectives, so-called pseudo adjectives that formed from nouns; they take form genuine weak passive participles verbs, many derive nom...

“synopsis and explainer” methodological discussion has been reflexed, in literary domain, as stipulation and constraint; but synopsis explanation seems being different to what happens in methodology because sometimes the meanings of lexical items and combinations are given on individual, probabilistic, and untrustworthy interpretations. present paper, applying few lines of nasser khosrow’s seco...