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Hatzidaki, Anna; Pothos, Emmanuel M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
A "text"-translation task and a recognition task investigated the hypothesis that "semantic memory" principally mediates translation from a bilingual's native first language (L1) to her second language (L2), whereas "lexical memory" mediates translation from L2 to L1. This has been held for word translation by the revised hierarchical model (RHM)…
Descriptors: Semantics, Memory, Translation, Word Recognition
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Little, Deborah M.; McGrath, Lauren M.; Prentice, Kristen J.; Wingfield, Arthur – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
Traditional models of human memory have postulated the need for a brief phonological or verbatim representation of verbal input as a necessary gateway to a higher level conceptual representation of the input. Potter has argued that meaningful sentences may be encoded directly in a conceptual short-term memory (CSTM) running parallel in time to…
Descriptors: Sentences, Context Effect, Semantics, Short Term Memory
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Arnaud, Pierre J. L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1999
Word substitution errors from a corpus of 2,400 French slips of the tongue were grouped into several categories: contaminational, semantic, formal, and mixed cases; substitutions of syntagmatic codependents also occurred. Semantic and formal substitutions involved a resemblance between target and error. All substitutions exhibited a strong degree…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language), French, Grammar
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Kohn, Susan; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Experiment in which university undergraduates were given word definitions and asked to say aloud responses that came to mind in the course of their attempts to retrieve target words is described. Results indicated phonologically similar responses and word-fragments were predictors of target-word knowledge and likelihood of success in retrieval was…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Correlation, Definitions