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Pattamadilok, Chotiga; Perre, Laetitia; Ziegler, Johannes C. – Brain and Language, 2011
Metaphonological tasks, such as rhyme judgment, have been the primary tool for the investigation of the effects of orthographic knowledge on spoken language. However, it has been recently argued that the orthography effect in rhyme judgment does not reflect the automatic activation of orthographic codes but rather stems from sophisticated response…
Descriptors: Speech, Phonology, Semantics, Oral Language
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Rama, Pia; Sirri, Louah; Serres, Josette – Brain and Language, 2013
Our aim was to investigate whether developing language system, as measured by a priming task for spoken words, is organized by semantic categories. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during a priming task for spoken words in 18- and 24-month-old monolingual French learning children. Spoken word pairs were either semantically related…
Descriptors: Semantics, Priming, Word Recognition, Monolingualism
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Macizo, Pedro; Van Petten, Cyma; O'Rourke, Polly L. – Brain and Language, 2012
Many multisyllabic words contain shorter words that are not semantic units, like the CAP in HANDICAP and the DURA ("hard") in VERDURA ("vegetable"). The spaces between printed words identify word boundaries, but spurious identification of these embedded words is a potentially greater challenge for spoken language comprehension, a challenge that is…
Descriptors: Semantics, Oral Language, Speech, Comprehension
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Gow, David W., Jr. – Brain and Language, 2012
Current accounts of spoken language assume the existence of a lexicon where wordforms are stored and interact during spoken language perception, understanding and production. Despite the theoretical importance of the wordform lexicon, the exact localization and function of the lexicon in the broader context of language use is not well understood.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Speech, Phonetics, Semantics
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Hirschfeld, Gerrit; Zwitserlood, Pienie; Dobel, Christian – Brain and Language, 2011
We investigated whether and when information conveyed by spoken language impacts on the processing of visually presented objects. In contrast to traditional views, grounded-cognition posits direct links between language comprehension and perceptual processing. We used a magnetoencephalographic cross-modal priming paradigm to disentangle these…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Speech, Semantics
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Kemmerer, David – Brain and Language, 2008
Allen [Allen, M. (2005). "The preservation of verb subcategory knowledge in a spoken language comprehension deficit." "Brain and Language, 95", 255-264.] reports a single patient, WBN, who, during spoken language comprehension, is still able to access some of the syntactic properties of verbs despite being unable to access some of their semantic…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Speech, Semantics, Verbs
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Allen, Mark D.; Owens, Tyler E. – Brain and Language, 2008
Allen [Allen, M. D. (2005). The preservation of verb subcategory knowledge in a spoken language comprehension deficit. "Brain and Language, "95, 255-264] presents evidence from a single patient, WBN, to motivate a theory of lexical processing and representation in which syntactic information may be encoded and retrieved independently of semantic…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Speech Communication, Semantics, Verbs
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Plasencia, Pilar Martin; Dorado, Jaime Iglesias; Rodriguez, Juan Manuel Serrano; Sellan, Carmen – Brain and Language, 2006
In this paper we present a case of "word-meaning deafness," characterised by serious problems in the comprehension of spoken language, whilst repetition and writing words and non-words from dictation are preserved. This performance indicates the impossibility of correctly accessing phonological representation from the semantic representation of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Spanish Speaking, Patients, Language Impairments
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Skipper, Jeremy I.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Nusbaum, Howard C.; Small, Steven L. – Brain and Language, 2007
Speech-associated gestures are hand and arm movements that not only convey semantic information to listeners but are themselves actions. Broca's area has been assumed to play an important role both in semantic retrieval or selection (as part of a language comprehension system) and in action recognition (as part of a "mirror" or…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Semantics, Speech Communication, Oral Language
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Allen, Mark D. – Brain and Language, 2005
Patient WBN has a lexical-semantic deficit resulting in impaired performance on language comprehension tasks that require access to verb meanings in both single-word and sentence contexts. However, WBN shows no such comprehension impairment with respect to lexical syntax. Specifically, he performs without error on comprehension tasks that rely on…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semantics, Comprehension, Oral Language
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Wible, Cynthia G.; Han, S. Duke; Spencer, Magdalena H.; Kubicki, Marek; Niznikiewicz, Margaret H.; Jolesz, Ferenc A.; McCarley, Robert W.; Nestor, Paul – Brain and Language, 2006
Semantic priming refers to a reduction in the reaction time to identify or make a judgment about a stimulus that has been immediately preceded by a semantically related word or picture and is thought to result from a partial overlap in the semantic associates of the two words. A semantic priming lexical decision task using spoken words was…
Descriptors: Semantics, Diagnostic Tests, Reaction Time, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Papagno, Costanza; Tabossi, Patrizia; Colombo, Maria Rosa; Zampetti, Patrizia – Brain and Language, 2004
Idiom comprehension was assessed in 10 aphasic patients with semantic deficits by means of a string-to-picture matching task. Patients were also submitted to an oral explanation of the same idioms, and to a word comprehension task. The stimuli of this last task were the words following the verb in the idioms. Idiom comprehension was severely…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Semantics, Aphasia, Oral Language