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Estudio contrastivo lingüístico y semántico de las construcciones verbales fijas diatópicas mexicanas/españolas

2010

En este artículo analizamos las construcciones verbales fijas de origen mexicano, y las compararemos con construcciones homólogas del español peninsular desde el punto de vista lingüístico y semántico con el fin de poner de relieve las peculiaridades de estas variantes diatópicas. In the present paper, we analyse set verbal constructions of Mexican origin and compare them with homologous verbal constructions of European Spanish origin from a morphological and semantic point of view in order to underline the peculiarities of the Mexican, diatopic varieties.

La sémantique sensorielle peut-elle être autre chose qu’une sémantique expérimentale ?

2017

International audience; [Objectifs et problématique] La question au centre de la proposition est celle de savoir quel(s) cadre(s) sémantique(s) théorique(s) est / sont le(s) mieux à même de rendre justice aux contraintes génériques qui pèsent sur les terminologies sensorielles – à commencer, ici, par la terminologie œnologique. Il s’agit en effet de tenir compte de deux aspects particuliers : d’une part la dimension expérientielle de ces termes (Dubois 2009) – où expérience doit être entendu au sens très concret de l’expérience de dégustation – et, d’autre part, la dimension éminemment subjective de ces expériences que la recherche d’une intersubjectivité partagée – comme sous-bassement déf…

Do young readers have fast access to abstract lexical representations? Evidence from masked priming

2014

Although there is consensus that adult readers have fast access to abstract letter/word representations, the developmental trajectory of such access has not been mapped out yet. To examine whether developmental readers have rapid access to abstract representations during the early stages of word processing, we conducted a masked priming lexical decision experiment with two groups of young readers (third and fifth graders) and a group of young adults. We selected two types of words: (a) words composed of cross-case letters that are visually dissimilar (DIS words; e.g., arte/ARTE [Spanish for art]) and (b) words composed of cross-case letters that are visually similar (SIM words; e.g., vivo/V…

The effects of interletter spacing in visual-word recognition.

2010

Despite the importance of determining the effects of interletter spacing on visual-word recognition, this issue has often been neglected in the literature. The goal of the present study is to shed some light on this topic. The rationale is that a thin increase in interletter spacing, as in casino, may reduce lateral interference among internal letters without destroying a word's integrity and/or allow a more precise encoding of a word's letter positions. Here we examined whether identification times for word stimuli in a lexical decision task were faster when the target word had a slightly wider than default interletter spacing value relative to the default settings (e.g., casino vs. casino…

Does Kaniso activate CASINO?: input coding schemes and phonology in visual-word recognition.

2010

Most recent input coding schemes in visual-word recognition assume that letter position coding is orthographic rather than phonological in nature (e.g., SOLAR, open-bigram, SERIOL, and overlap). This assumption has been drawn – in part – by the fact that the transposed-letter effect (e.g., caniso activates CASINO) seems to be (mostly) insensitive to phonological manipulations (e.g., Perea & Carreiras, 2006 , 2008 ; Perea & Pérez, 2009 ). However, one could argue that the lack of a phonological effect in prior research was due to the fact that the manipulation always occurred in internal letter positions – note that phonological effects tend to be stronger for the initial syllable (…

Neighborhood Effects in Visual Word Recognition and Reading

2015

Consonant/vowel asymmetries in letter position coding during normal reading: Evidence from parafoveal previews in Thai

2013

Studies have revealed that consonants and vowels serve different roles during linguistic processing. Masked transposed-letter priming effects (i.e., faster word-identification times for words preceded by a transposed-letter than substitution-letter prime) occur for consonants but not for vowels in lexical decision (Perea & Lupker, 2004). Potential differences in letter position coding for consonants and vowels during silent normal reading were investigated in Thai using the boundary paradigm (Rayner, 1975). Thai has a distinctive alphabetic script with vowels taking a relatively subsidiary role in relation to consonants. Parafoveal processing of nonadjacent transposed-letter effects involvi…

Unveiling the boost in the sandwich priming technique.

2021

The masked priming technique (which compares #####-house-HOUSE vs. #####-fight-HOUSE) is the gold-standard tool to examine the initial moments of word processing. Lupker and Davis showed that adding a pre-prime identical to the target produced greater priming effects in the sandwich technique (which compares #####-HOUSE-house-HOUSE vs #####-HOUSE-fight-HOUSE). While there is consensus that the sandwich technique magnifies the size of priming effects relative to the standard procedure, the mechanisms underlying this boost are not well understood (i.e., does it reflect quantitative or qualitative changes?). To fully characterise the sandwich technique, we compared the sandwich and standard t…

When WORDS with Higher-frequency Neighbours Become Words with No Higher-frequency Neighbour (Or How to Undress the Neighbourhood Frequency Effect)

2000

Abstract “SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS” (The ploughman, with his plough, manages the work) The influence of lexical similarity on word recognition has been discussed not only because of its theoretical impact but also because it is difficult to replicate. Among the multiplicity of the causes of this inconsistency one reason can be that different words were used in comparing words with higher-frequency neighbours (HFN) and words without HFN. In this experiment we chose French words for which the neighbourhood changes when they are written in UPPER case or in lower case. For example ‘DEFI’ has one HFN (‘DEMI’) but when it is displayed in lower case ‘defi’ has no HFN because ‘demi’ has no acc…

The effects of inter-letter spacing in visual-word recognition: Evidence with young normal readers and developmental dyslexics

2012

Abstract Recent research has demonstrated that slight increases of inter-letter spacing have a positive impact on skilled readers' recognition of visually presented words. In the present study, we examined whether this effect generalises to young normal readers and readers with developmental dyslexia, and whether increased inter-letter spacing affects the reading times and comprehension of a short text. To that end, we conducted a series of lexical decision and continuous reading experiments in which words were presented with the default settings or with a small increase in inter-letter spacing. Increased spacing produced shorter word identification times not only with adult skilled readers…