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the process by which contact is made with the lexicon on the basis of an initial acoustic-phonetic or phonological representation of some portion of the speech input, the result of lexical success is a cohort of potential word candidates which are compatible with this initial analysis.

Definition contributed by Anonymous

Asserted relationships to other concepts

lexical access
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lexical access
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are a kind of
lexical access

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lexical access

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Tasks that are asserted to measure lexical access

Task Contrast Measure

naming (overt)
  • areas of activation during task minus baseline

naming (covert)
  • areas of activation during task minus baseline

word stem completion (overt)
  • areas of activation during covert minus areas of activation during overt

word stem completion (covert)
  • areas of activation during task minus baseline

word identification
  • accuracy of participant minus average accuracy of controls

rapid automatized naming test
  • standard deviation from the mean time

lexical decision task
  • Words - Pseudowords

boston naming test
  • percent correct (number of correct responses/number of total pictures)

Term BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lexical access in connected speech recognition
Ted Briscoe
Proceeding ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics