Abel Alyson D, Maguire Mandy J, Naqvi Fizza M, Kim Angela Y
Callier Center for Communication Disorders, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, 1966 Inwood Rd., Dallas, TX, 75235, USA,
J Psycholinguist Res. 2015 Oct;44(5):545-53. doi: 10.1007/s10936-014-9304-8.
This study explored noun and verb retrieval using a sentence completion task to expand upon previous findings from picture naming tasks. Participants completed sentences missing either a target noun or verb in the final position. Non-target responses were coded for substitution type, imageability and frequency. Like picture naming, nouns and verbs differed in non-target substitution type-within-category substitutions were primarily nouns and out-of-category substitutions were primarily verbs. Imageability predicted multiple substitution types for both word classes, whereas frequency predicted noun substitution types but not verbs. Findings support theories of noun and verb differences in semantic retrieval, showing the robustness of this effect across methodologies, and shed new light on the influence of imageability and frequency during semantic retrieval.
本研究通过句子完成任务探索名词和动词检索，以扩展先前图片命名任务的研究结果。参与者完成在句末缺少目标名词或动词的句子。对非目标反应进行替代类型、可想象性和频率编码。与图片命名一样，名词和动词在非目标替代类型上存在差异——类别内替代主要是名词，类别外替代主要是动词。可想象性预测了两类词的多种替代类型，而频率预测了名词替代类型而非动词替代类型。研究结果支持名词和动词在语义检索上存在差异的理论，表明这种效应在不同方法中的稳健性，并为语义检索过程中可想象性和频率的影响提供了新的见解。
