Accessing Conceptual Representations for Speaking

• Main Author: Peter Indefrey (auth)
• Other Authors: Ian FitzPatrick (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; conceptual representations; concepts; word production; Language production; semantic semantics; semantic distracters
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

For speaking, words in the lexicon are somehow activated from conceptual representations but we know surprisingly little about how this works precisely. Which of the attributes of the concept DOG (e.g. BARKS, IS WALKED WITH A LEASH, CARNIVORE, ANIMATE) have to be activated in a given situation to be...