Open AccessAbsence of sublexical representations in late-learning signers? A statistical critique of Lieberman et al. (2015).
Author(s) -
Anne Pier Salverda
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of experimental psychology. learning, memory, and cognition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.758
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1939-1285
pISSN - 0278-7393
DOI - 10.1037/xlm0000261
Subject(s) - mental lexicon , lexicon , contrast (vision) , psychology , linguistics , phonology , sign language , sign (mathematics) , psycinfo , cognitive psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , mathematical analysis , philosophy , mathematics , medline , political science , law
Lieberman, Borovsky, Hatrak, and Mayberry (2015) used a modified version of the visual-world paradigm to examine the real-time processing of signs in American Sign Language. They examined the activation of phonological and semantic competitors in native signers and late-learning signers and concluded that their results provide evidence that the mental lexicon of late learners is organized differently from that of native signers. In particular, they claimed that late-learning signers, in contrast to native signers, do not activate phonological competitors during the real-time recognition of spoken words. I argue that this claim receives no substantive support from the data and the inferential statistics. (PsycINFO Database Record