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The how and the when of semantic illusions in native and non-native languages
Fernandes, Ana Isabel; Flores, Cristina; Gomes, Juliana Novo; Haro, Juan; Comesaña, MontserratThe nature and processing of semantic illusions (SI; when speakers fail to notice an anomalous word in a sentence that is contextually perfectly aligned with world knowledge) have been largely studied during first language comprehension. Although this issue is not free of controversy, findings sustain The Node Structure Theory, according to which SI is a phonological and/or semantic priming effect which occurs ...
The how and the when of semantic illusions in native and non-native languages
Fernandes, Ana I.; Gomes, Juliana Novo; Haro, Juan; Flores, Cristina; Comesaña, MontserratThe nature and processing of semantic illusions (SI; when speakers fail to notice an anomalous word in a sentence that is contextually perfectly aligned with world knowledge) have been largely studied during first language comprehension. Although this issue is not free of controversy, findings sustain The Node Structure Theory, according to which SI is a phonological and/or semantic priming effect which occurs ...
Language balance rather than age of acquisition: a study on the cross-linguisti...
Sá-Leite, Ana Rita; Flores, Cristina; Eira, Carina; Haro, Juan; Comesaña, MontserratThe cross-linguistic gender congruency effect (GCE; a facilitation on gender retrieval for translations of the same gender) is a robust phenomenon analysed almost exclusively with late bilinguals. However, it is important to ascertain whether it is modulated by age of acquisition (AoA) and language proficiency. We asked 64 early and late bilinguals of European Portuguese and German to do a forward and backward ...
The representation and processing of synonyms and translations: a masked primin...
Tomaz, Ângela; Oliveira, Helena Mendes; Soares, Ana Paula; Casalis, Severine; Comesaña, MontserratAims/Objectives: According to Multilink, words from the first (L1) and (L2) second languages share a common store and their access is non-selective. Thus, the presentation of a target word activates in parallel lexical candidates from both languages that share form and semantic overlap. The degree of words' activation also depends on their resting levels of activation (words that are more used have a higher res...
Is there an early morphological decomposition during L2 lexical access? A meta-...
Fernandes, Ana Isabel; Luna, Karlos; Soares, Ana Paula; Comesaña, MontserratA considerable body of experimental data currently exists on the representation and processing of derived words. However, no theoretical account has led to a consensus so far, due in part to inconsistencies in empirical results which show either the presence or the absence of signs of early morphological decomposition during lexical access. In this paper, we present the results of a meta-analysis that sought to...
The mechanisms underlying grammatical gender selection in language production: ...
Rita Sa-Leite, Ana; Luna, Karlos; Tomaz, Angela; Fraga, Isabel; Comesaña, MontserratGrammatical gender retrieval during language production has been largely addressed through the picture-word interference (PWI) paradigm, with the aim of capturing the so-called gender congruency effect (GCE). In the PWI paradigm, participants name target pictures while ignoring superimposed written distractor nouns. The GCE shows faster responses when target and distractor nouns share the same gender than when ...
The cognate facilitation effect depends on the presence of identical cognates
Arana, Sophie L.; Oliveira, Helena Mendes; Fernandes, Ana Isabel; Soares, Ana Paula; Comesaña, MontserratPrevious research has shown that the direction of the cognate facilitation effect (CFE) can disappear if identical cognate words are removed from the stimulus list while keeping task requirements constant (Comesana, Ferre, Romero, Guasch, Soares & Garcia-Chico, 2015). These results do not fit well with leading computational models of bilingual word recognition (BIA+, Multilink), according to which there are no ...
Procura-PALavras (P-PAL): A web-based interface for a new european portuguese l...
Soares, Ana Paula; Iriarte, Álvaro; Almeida, José João; Simões, Alberto; Costa, Ana; Machado, João; França, Patrícia; Comesaña, MontserratIn this article, we present Procura-PALavras (P-PAL), a Web-based interface for a new European Portuguese (EP) lexical database. Based on a contemporary printed corpus of over 227 million words, P-PAL provides a broad range of word attributes and statistics, including several measures of word frequency (e.g., raw counts, per-million word frequency, logarithmic Zipf scale), morpho-syntactic information (e.g., pa...
Disentangling the role of deviant letter position on cognate word processing
Comesaña, Montserrat; Haro, Juan; Macizo, Pedro; Ferré, PilarThe way of coding letter position has been extensively assessed during the recognition of native words, leading to the development of a new generation of models that assume more flexible letter position coding schemes compared to classical computational models such as the interactive activation (IA) model. However, determining whether similar letter position encoding mechanisms occur during the bilingual word r...
Of beavers and tables: the role of animacy in the processing of grammatical gen...
Sa-Leite, Ana Rita; Haro, Juan; Comesaña, Montserrat; Fraga, IsabelGrammatical gender processing during language production has classically been studied using the so-called picture-word interference (PWI) task. In this procedure, participants are presented with pictures they must name using target nouns while ignoring superimposed written distractor nouns. Variations in response times are expected depending on the congruency between the gender values of targets and distractors...