Development of Lexical Planning Scope in Speech Production: Evidence from Primary, Middle School and Undergraduate Students

Abstract

Abstract: The present study took the semantic interference effect of the picture-word interference paradigm as an index to examine the lexical planning scope of three age levels coming from colleges, middle schools, and primary schools respectively. Participants produced sentences containing three referents each. For both the undergraduate students and the middle school students, there was a semantic interference effect only for the first noun, indicating a radically incremental pattern for lexical planning. For the primary school students, the semantic interference effect was absent for all the three nouns, indicating that primary school students have not stably completed the lexical selection for the first noun before speech onset. These findings indicated an individual difference on the lexical planning scope, mainly between the primary and middle school students.

Key words: speech production, lexical selection, planning scope, individual differences

摘要： 采用图-词干扰范式，要求被试口语产生包含三个名词的句子，通过检验句中不同位置的名词上的语义干扰效应，探讨大中小学生言语产生中词汇选择的计划单元。结果发现，大学生和初中生都只在第一个名词上发现了言语产生潜伏期的语义干扰效应，表明其词汇选择的计划单元只限于第一个名词，支持了严格递进假设；小学生在三个名词上都没有发现潜伏期的语义干扰效应，表明小学生没有稳定地选择好第一个名词即开始发音。由此可见，词汇选择的计划单元大小是可变的，存在年龄上的个体差异，主要表现在小学生和初中生之间。

关键词: 言语产生, 词汇选择, 计划单元, 大中小学生

CLC Number:

B842.5

ZHAO Liming, LIAN Yuan, LI Weijun. Development of Lexical Planning Scope in Speech Production: Evidence from Primary, Middle School and Undergraduate Students[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2018, 16(6): 735-743.

赵黎明, 廉园, 李卫君. 口语句子产生中词汇选择的计划单元：来自大中小学生的比较研究[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2018, 16(6): 735-743.

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