Insights into failed lexical retrieval from network science

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-32

  Vitevitch, Michael S ^a   Chan, Kit Ying ^a   Goldstein, Rutherford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental lexicon; Network science; Spoken word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888048504     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2013.10.002     Document Type: Article

References (108)

1. Abercrombie D. Elements of general phonetics 1967, Aldine, Chicago, IL.
2. Albert R., Barabási A.L. Statistical mechanics of complex networks. Review of Modern Physics 2002, 74:47-97.
3. Albert R., Jeong H., Barabási A.L. Error and attack tolerance of complex networks. Nature 2000, 406:378-382.
4. Amaral L.A.N., Scala A., Barthélémy M., Stanley H.E. Classes of small-world networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2000, 97:11149-11152.
5. Arbesman S., Strogatz S.H., Vitevitch M.S. Comparative analysis of networks of phonologically similar words in English and Spanish. Entropy 2010, 12:327-337.
6. Arbesman S., Strogatz S.H., Vitevitch M.S. The structure of phonological networks across multiple languages. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 2010, 20:679-685.
7. Arnon I., Snider N. More than words: Frequency effects for multi-word phrases. Journal of Memory & Language 2010, 62:67-82.
8. Baayen, R. H. (1991). A stochastic process for word frequency distributions. In Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics.
9. Baayen R.H. Word frequency distributions 2001, Kluwer, Dordrecht.
10. Baayen R.H. Demythologizing the word frequency effect: A discriminative learning perspective. The Mental Lexicon 2010, 5:436-461.
11. Baayen R.H., Hendrix P., Ramscar M. Sidestepping the combinatorial explosion: An explanation of n-gram frequency effects based on naïve discriminative learning. Language & Speech 2013, 56:329-347.
12. Barabási A.L. Scale-free networks: A decade and beyond. Science 2009, 325:412-413.
13. Barabási A.L. The network takeover. Nature Physics 2012, 8:14-16.
14. Barabási A.L., Albert R. Emergence of scaling in random networks. Science 1999, 286:509-512.
15. Bates E., D'Amico S., Jacobsen T., Szekely A., Andonova E., Devescovi A., et al. Timed picture naming in seven languages. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2003, 10:344-380.
16. Berkowitz L., Donnerstein E. External validity is more than skin deep: Some answers to criticisms of laboratory experiments. American Psychologist 1982, 37:245-257.
17. Boccaletti S., Latora V., Moreno Y., Chavez M., Hwang D. Complex networks: Structure and dynamics. Physics Reports 2006, 424:175-308.
18. Bond Z.S. Slips of the ear: Errors in the perception of casual conversation 1999, Academic Press, New York.
19. Borge-Holthoefer J., Arenas A. Semantic networks: Structure and dynamics. Entropy 2010, 12:1264-1302.
20. Brown R., McNeill D. The "tip of the tongue" phenomenon. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 1966, 5:325-337.
21. Butts C.T. Revisiting the foundations of network analysis. Science 2009, 325:414-416.
22. Celata C., Calderone B., Montermini F. Enriched sublexical representations to access morphological structures. A psycho-computational account. Traitement Automatique des Langues 2011, 52:123-149.
23. Chan K.Y., Vitevitch M.S. The influence of the phonological neighborhood clustering-coefficient on spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance 2009, 35:1934-1949.
24. Chan K.Y., Vitevitch M.S. Network structure influences speech production. Cognitive Science 2010, 34:685-697.
25. Charles-Luce J., Luce P.A. Similarity neighborhoods of words in young children's lexicons. Journal of Child Language 1990, 17:205-215.
26. Cohen J., MacWhinney B., Flatt M., Provost J. PsyScope: An interactive graphic system for designing and controlling experiments in the psychology laboratory using Macintosh computers. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers 1993, 25(2):257-271.
27. Cramer A.O.J., Waldorp L.J., van der Maas H., Borsboom D. Comorbidity: A network perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2010, 33:137-193.
28. Cutler A. Making up materials is a confounded nuisance, or: Will we be able to run any psycholinguistic experiments at all in 1990?. Cognition 1981, 10:65-70.
29. Dell G.S. A spreading-activation theory of retrieval in sentence production. Psychological Review 1986, 93:283-321.
30. Dell G.S. The retrieval of phonological forms in production: Tests of predictions from a connectionist model. Journal of Memory and Language 1988, 27:124-142.
31. Fay D., Cutler A. Malapropisms and the structure of the mental lexicon. Linguistic Inquiry 1977, 8:505-520.
32. Felty R.A., Buchwald A., Gruenenfelder T.M., Pisoni D.B. Misperceptions of spoken words: Data from a random sample of American English words. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2013, 134:572-585.
33. Ferrer i Cancho, R., Mehler, A., Abramov, O., & Díaz-Guilera, A. (2007). Correlations in the organization of large-scale syntactic dependency networks. In Proceedings of graph-based methods for natural language processing (TextGraphs-2) the annual conference of the North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2007), Rochester, New York, pp. 65-72.
34. Ferrer-i-Cancho R., Forns N., Hernandez-Fernandez A., Bel-Enguix G., Baixeries J. The challenges of statistical patterns of language: The case of Menzerath's Law in genomes. Complexity 2012, 18:11-17.
35. Forster K.I. Accessing the mental lexicon. Explorations in the biology of language 1978, Bradford, Montgomery, VT. E. Walker (Ed.).
36. Frauenfelder U.H., Baayen R.H., Hellwig F.M., Schreuder R. Neighborhood density and frequency across languages and modalities. Journal of Memory & Language 1993, 32:781-804.
37. Fromkin V.A. The non-anomalous nature of anomalous utterances. Language 1971, 47:27-52.
38. Gaskell M.G., Marslen-Wilson W.D. Integrating form and meaning: A distributed model of speech perception. Language and Cognitive Processes 1997, 12:613-656.
39. Girvan M., Newman M.E.J. Community structure in social and biological networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2002, 99:7821-7826.
40. Goldinger S.D. Echoes of echoes? An episodic theory of lexical access. Psychological Review 1998, 105:251-279.
41. Goldstone R.L., Roberts M.E., Gureckis T.M. Emergent processes in group behavior. Current Directions in Psychological Science 2008, 17:10-15.
42. Grainger J., O'Regan J.K., Jacobs A.M., Segui J. On the role of competing word units in visual word recognition: The neighborhood frequency effect. Perception & Psychophysics 1989, 45:189-195.
43. Griffiths T.L., Steyvers M., Firl A. Google and the mind: Predicting fluency with PageRank. Psychological Science 2007, 18:1069-1076.
44. Gruenenfelder T.M., Pisoni D.B. The lexical restructuring hypothesis and graph theoretic analyses of networks based on random lexicons. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2009, 52:596-609.
45. Hills T.T., Maouene M., Maouene J., Sheya A., Smith L. Longitudinal analysis of early semantic networks: Preferential attachment or preferential acquisition?. Psychological Science 2009, 20:729-739.
46. Iyengar S.R.S., Madhavan C.E.V., Zweig K.A., Natarajan A. Understanding human navigation using network analysis. Topics in Cognitive Science 2012, 4:121-134.
47. Johnson K. Speech perception without speaker normalization: An exemplar model. Talker variability in speech processing 1997, 145-165. Academic Press, San Diego. Mullennix, Johnson (Eds.).
48. Keller E.F. Revisiting "scale-free" networks. BioEssays 2005, 27:1060-1068.
49. Kello, C. T., & Beltz, B. C. (2009). Scale-free networks in phonological and orthographic wordform lexicons. In I. Chitoran, C. Coupé, E. Marsico, & F. Pellegrino (Eds.), Approaches to phonological complexity (Mouton de Gruyter).
50. Kučera H., Francis W.N. Computational analysis of present day American English 1967, Brown University Press, Providence.
51. Lamb S. Linguistic and cognitive networks. Cognition: A multiple view 1970, 195-222. Spartan Books, New York. P. Garvin (Ed.).
52. Landauer T.K., Streeter L.A. Structural differences between common and rare words: Failure of equivalence assumptions for theories of word recognition. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 1973, 12:119-131.
53. Laxon V.J., Coltheart V., Keating C. Children find friendly words friendly too: Words with many orthographic neighbours are easier to read and spell. British Journal of Educational Psychology 1988, 58:103-119.
54. Lester J.A. A study of high school spelling material II. Journal of Educational Psychology 1922, 13:152-159.
55. Levelt W.J.M., Roelofs A., Meyer A.S. A theory of lexical access in speech production. Behavioral & Brain Sciences 1999, 22:1-75.
56. Lewandowsky S. The rewards and hazards of computer experiments. Psychological Science 1993, 4:236-243.
57. Luce P.A., Goldinger S.D., Auer E.T., Vitevitch M.S. Phonetic priming, neighborhood activation, and PARSYN. Perception and Psychophysics 2000, 62:615-625.
58. Luce P.A., Large N.R. Phonotactics, density and entropy in spoken word recognition. Language and Cognitive Processes 2001, 16:565-581.
59. Luce P.A., Pisoni D.B. Recognizing spoken words: The neighborhood activation model. Ear and Hearing 1998, 19:1-36.
60. MacKay D.G. Errors, ambiguity, and awareness in language perception and production. Experimental slips and human error: Exploring the architecture of volition 1992, 39-69. Plenum Press, New York. B.J. Baars (Ed.).
61. MacKay D.G., Wulf G., Yin C., Abrams L. Relations between word perception and production: New theory and data on the verbal transformation effect. Journal of Memory & Language 1993, 32:624-646.
62. Mandelbrot B. An informational theory of the statistical structure of language. Communication theory 1953, Bettersworths, London. W. Jackson (Ed.).
63. Marslen-Wilson W.D. Functional parallelism in spoken word-recognition. Cognition. Special issue: Spoken word recognition 1987, 25:71-102.
64. McClelland J.L. The place of modeling in cognitive science. Topics in Cognitive Science 2009, 1:11-38.
65. McClelland J.L., Elman J.L. The TRACE mo4del of speech perception. Cognitive Psychology 1986, 18:1-86.
66. McClelland J.L., Rogers T.T. The parallel distributed processing approach to semantic cognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2003, 4:310-322.
67. McLennan C.T., Luce P.A. Examining the time course of indexical specificity effects in spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 2005, 31:306-321.
68. Miller G. Some effects of intermittent silence. American Journal of Psychology 1957, 52:311-314.
69. Neal Z.P. The Connected City: How networks are shaping the modern metropolis 2013, Routledge, New York.
70. Nelson, D. L., McEvoy, C. L., & Schreiber, T. A. (1998). The University of South Florida word association, rhyme, and word fragment norms. <>. http://www.usf.edu/FreeAssociation/.
71. Newman M.E.J. Assortative mixing in networks. Physical Review Letters 2002, 89:20889701.
72. Norman D.A. Categorization of action slips. Psychological Review 1981, 88:1-15.
73. Norris D. Shortlist: A connectionist model of continuous speech recognition. Cognition 1994, 52:189-234.
74. Norris D., McQueen J.M. Shortlist B: A Bayesian model of continuous speech recognition. Psychological Review 2008, 115:357-395.
75. Nusbaum H.C., Pisoni D.B., Davis C.K. Sizing up the Hoosier Mental Lexicon: Measuring the familiarity of 20,000 words. Research on Speech Perception Progress Report 1984, 10:357-376.
76. Pisoni D.B. Word identification in noise. Language & Cognitive Processes 1996, 11:681-688.
77. Pisoni D.B., Nusbaum H.C., Luce P.A., Slowiaczek L.M. Speech perception, word recognition and the structure of the lexicon. Speech Communication 1985, 4:75-95.
78. Plunkett K., Elman J.L. Exercises in rethinking innateness: A handbook for connectionist experiments 1997, MIT Press.
79. Porter M.A., Onnela J.P., Mucha P.J. Communities in networks. Notices of the American Mathematical Society 2009, 56:1082-1166.
80. Quillian R. Word concepts: A theory and simulation of some basic semantic capabilities. Behavioral Science 1967, 12:410-430.
81. Roodenrys S., Hulme C., Lethbridge A., Hinton M., Nimmo L.M. Word-frequency and phonological-neighborhood effects on verbal short-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 2002, 28:1019-1034.
82. Rosenblatt F. The perceptron: A probabilistic model for information storage and organization in the brain. Psychological Review 1958, 65:386-408.
83. Scharenborg O., ten Bosch L., Boves L., Norris D. Bridging automatic speech recognition and psycholinguistics: Extending Shortlist to an end-to-end model of human speech recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2003, 114:3032-3035.
84. Shoaf L.C., Pitt M.A. Does node stability underlie the verbal transformation effect? A test of node structure theory. Perception & Psychophysics 2002, 64:795-803.
85. Siew C.S.Q. Community structure in the phonological network. Frontiers in Psychology 2013, 4:533. 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00553.
86. Sporns O. Networks of the brain 2010, MIT Press.
87. Steyvers M., Tenenbaum J. The large-scale structure of semantic networks: Statistical analyses and a model of semantic growth. Cognitive Science 2005, 29:41-78.
88. Storkel H.L. Do children acquire dense neighborhoods? An investigation of similarity neighborhoods in lexical acquisition. Applied Psycholinguistics 2004, 25:201-221.
89. Strauss T.J., Harris H.D., Magnuson J.S. JTRACE: A reimplementation and extension of the TRACE model of speech perception and spoken word recognition. Behavior Research Methods 2007, 39:19-30.
90. Turvey M.T., Moreno M. Physical metaphors for the mental lexicon. The Mental Lexicon 2006, 1:7-33.
91. Vitevitch M.S. Influence of onset density on spoken-word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2002, 28:270-278.
92. Vitevitch M.S. Naturalistic and experimental analyses of word frequency and neighborhood density effects in slips of the ear. Language and Speech 2002, 45:407-434.
93. Vitevitch M.S. The spread of the phonological neighborhood influences spoken word recognition. Memory & Cognition 2007, 35:166-175.
94. Vitevitch M.S. What can graph theory tell us about word learning and lexical retrieval?. Journal of Speech Language Hearing Research 2008, 51:408-422.
95. Vitevitch M.S., Donoso A. Processing of indexical information requires time: Evidence from change deafness. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 2011, 64:1484-1493.
96. Vitevitch M.S., Chan K.Y., Roodenrys S. Complex network structure influences processing in long-term and short-term memory. Journal of Memory & Language 2012, 67:30-44.
97. Vitevitch M.S., Ercal G., Adagarla B. Simulating retrieval from a highly clustered network: Implications for spoken word recognition. Frontiers in Psychology 2011, 2:369. 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00369.
98. Vitevitch M.S., Luce P.A. Probabilistic phonotactics and neighborhood activation in spoken word recognition. Journal of Memory & Language 1999, 40:374-408.
99. Vitevitch M.S., Luce P.A. A web-based interface to calculate phonotactic probability for words and nonwords in English. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers 2004, 36:481-487.
100. Vitevitch M.S., Luce P.A. Increases in phonotactic probability facilitate spoken nonword repetition. Journal of Memory & Language 2005, 52:193-204.
101. Vitevitch M.S., Stamer M.K., Sereno J.A. Word length and lexical competition: Longer is the same as shorter. Language & Speech 2008, 51:361-383.
102. Vitevitch, M. S. & Storkel, H. L. (2012). Examining the acquisition of phonological word forms with computational experiments. Language & Speech. (Published online before print October 23, 2012). doi:10.1177/0023830912460513.
103. Waller W.S., Zimbelman M.F. A cognitive footprint in archival data: Generalizing the dilution effect from laboratory to field settings. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 2003, 91:254-268.
104. Warren R.M. Verbal transformation effect and auditory perceptual mechanisms. Psychological Bulletin 1968, 70:261-270.
105. Warren R.M., Gregory R.L. An auditory analogue of the visual reversible figure. American Journal of Psychology 1958, 71:612-613.
106. Watts D.J., Strogatz S.H. Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks. Nature 1998, 393:409-410.
107. Wright C.E. Duration differences between rare and common words and their implications for the interpretation of word frequency effects. Memory & Cognition 1979, 7:411-419.
108. Zipf G.K. The psychobiology of language 1935, Houghton Mifflin, Boston.