NDLI: What the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) says about homophone frequency inheritance

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Author	Antón Méndez, Inés Schütze, Carson T. Champion, Mary K. Gollan, Tamar H.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	The present study uses tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states as a unique source of evidence to test the hypothesis of lexical access benefits for homophones—that is, whether low-frequency homophones, such as tee, inherit the lexical access benefits of their high-frequency homophonic counterparts, such as tea. We compared retrieval success rates for low-frequency homophones, for matched low-frequency controls, and for high-frequency controls with the combined frequency of the homophone set. In correct retrievals, low-frequency homophones behaved according to their specific frequency, not differing from the low-frequency controls. However, retrieval failures revealed a different kind of homophone effect. When retrieval failed for targets with a homophone partner, access difficulties tended to be less profound than for low-frequency controls, ending closer to target retrieval more often than low-frequency controls (at Step 2; in a self-resolved TOT or in a TOT with a strong feeling of knowing), and ending far away from target retrieval less often than low-frequency controls (at Step 1; in a notGOT). These results provide evidence against the notion of shared word-form representations for homophonic targets but leave open a door for a weaker form of homophone effects, possibly arising from feedback activation that influences retrieval only when access is sufficiently slowed (as when retrieval fails).
Starting Page	802
Ending Page	811
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0090502X
Journal	Memory & Cognition
Volume Number	40
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15325946
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2012-02-18
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Frequency Homophone inheritance Lexical access Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) Cognitive Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Arts and Humanities Medicine Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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