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• Cross linguistic evidence of multiple routes - (Frost, Katz & Bentin 1987)

  • examined how different languages with varying orthographic depths process words
  • task = name target words quickly after being shown semantically related prime words
• Cross linguistic evidence of multiple routes (Frost, Katz, & Bentin, 1987) - word processing routes

  • proposed 2 routes in word processing -
  • Direct Route: Phonological information accessed after lexical access
  • Assembled Route: Phonological information accessed before lexical access.
• Cross linguistic evidence of multiple routes (Frost, Katz, & Bentin, 1987) - cross linguistic analysis

  • Hebrew (deep orthography) exhibited semantic priming - suggest direct route
  • English (less deep orthography) showed less semantic priming but still significant - indicate both routes available
  • Serbo-Croatian (shallow orthography) displayed no semantic priming - support assembled route
• Cross linguistic evidence of multiple routes (Frost, Katz, & Bentin, 1987) - suggests

  • depth of orthography influences word processing route used
  • shallow orthographies favor assembled route
  • deep orthographies favor direct route
  • Languages with intermediate orthographic depth may utilize both routes
• ERPs in language research

  • Allows us to investigate how language processing unfolds in real-time
  • Can monitor “covert” processing when no  “overt” behavioral response
  • Can ask which stage affected by given experimental manipulation
  • Allows test models of cognitive processes & evaluate how models map onto brain.
• Some ERP components

  nomenclature of ERP components indicates polarity + latency (N100, P300, N400) or: polarity + ordinal number (P1, N1, P2)