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Can the Discriminative Lexicon Model account for the family size effect in auditory word recognition?
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Published online: 24 January 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/nb.00010.mul
https://doi.org/10.1075/nb.00010.mul
Abstract
Words with larger morphological families elicit shorter response times (RTs) in lexical decision experiments
(e.g., Bertram, Raymond, Harald R. Baayen & Robert Schreuder. 2000. Effects
of family size for complex words. Journal of Memory and
Language 421. 390–405. ). One possible account for this family size (FS) effect draws on the Discriminative Lexicon Model (DLM; Chuang, Yu-Ying & Harald R. Baayen. 2021. Discriminative
learning and the lexicon: NDL and LDL. In Oxford research
encyclopedia of linguistics. ), positing that morphological family members strengthen relationships between forms and
meanings. While it has been shown that the DLM successfully explains FS effects in reading (Mulder, Kimberley, Ton Dijkstra, Robert Schreuder & Harald R. Baayen. 2014. Effects
of primary and secondary morphological family size in monolingual and bilingual word
processing. Journal of Memory and
Language 721. 59–84. ), we investigated whether it does so in listening too. We trained the computational model LDL-AURIS
(Shafaei-Bajestan, Elnaz, Masoumeh Moradipour-Tari, Peter Uhrig & Harald R. Baayen. 2023. LDL-AURIS:
A computational model, grounded in error-driven learning, for the comprehension of single spoken
words. Language, Cognition and
Neuroscience, 1–28. ), which implements the DLM, on Dutch and show that a
measure derived from LDL-AURIS accounts for variance in auditory lexical decision RTs in Dutch, and also partially accounts for
the same variance in the RTs as the auditory FS effect. Future research should investigate whether some other measure derived from
the DLM can fully explain FS effects in listening.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The family size effect
- 3.The Discriminative Lexicon Model
- 4.The present study
- 5.Experiment
- 5.1Data
- 5.2Training LDL-AURIS
- 5.3Calculation of the family size measures
- 5.4Control variables in the baseline model
- 5.5Estimation and comparison of the models
- 5.6Results
- 6.Discussion
- Notes
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