Efectos de frecuencia de palabra en la selección léxica en la producción del hablaevidencia aportada mediante una tarea de denominación en contextos semánticamente homogéneos
- Navarrete, Jorge Eduardo
- Costa Martínez, Albert
- Pontin, Silvia
- Santesteban Insausti, Mikel
ISSN: 0214-3550, 1579-3702
Year of publication: 2006
Volume: 18
Issue: 1
Pages: 75-84
Type: Article
More publications in: Cognitiva
Abstract
We report an experiment exploring the extent to which the process of lexical selection in speech production is sensitive to word frequency. Participants were asked to name pictures in two sets of lists: semantic homogeneous (all pictures from the same semantic category) and semantic heterogeneous sets (pictures from various semantic categories). Naming latencies were slower for the former type of lists, replicating the semantic interference effects reported before. Importantly, the magnitude of the semantic interference effect was not modulated by the word's frequency value. That is, the effects of a fixed semantic context were similar regardless of the picture's name frequency. This result is interpreted as revealing that word frequency does not affect the ease with which lexical selection is achieved.