Abstract
Spread of activation between different types of knowledge representation in the mental lexicon was investigated in two semantically mediated phonological priming experiments. Facilitatory effects were found in naming not only for words (e.g., ¾ô) that were semantically related to their primes (e.g., ªe), but also for words that were homophonic to the semantic targets (e.g., ¹´). However, the amount of priming for homophone targets varied according to whether they were also orthographically similar to semantic targets. An inhibitory priming effect was found for words that were orthographically similar to but phonologically different from semantic targets (e.g., ¼b). It was concluded that the spread of activation between words sharing semantic properties was not encapsulated in the semantic system, but activated the phonological and orthographic representations automatically and immediately.
| Keywords: | mental lexicon; spreading activation; semantic priming; naming |
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