Research suggests that the lexicon stores high-frequent combinations of words
(e.g., Arnon & Snider, 2010), thereby optimizing the balance between computation and retrieval during language
comprehension. Here, we studied whether the production of multi-word expressions is optimized in a similar way. First, we
measured speech onset latencies for Dutch clock-time expressions. Second, we developed a statistical model of these
latencies, using two types of predictors: (1) the speech-onset latencies for arithmetic problems involved in Dutch clock time
naming, and (2) the expressions’ Google frequencies. The resulting model explains 94% of the variance in our naming study.
We conclude that phrase production shows the same frequency-driven balance between online computation and
lexicon-related retrieval found in phrase comprehension.
Archambeau, Kim, Joaquina Couto & Leendert Van Maanen
2022. Non-parametric mixture modeling of cognitive psychological data: A new method to disentangle hidden strategies. Behavior Research Methods 55:5 ► pp. 2232 ff.
Levelt, Willem J.M.
2020. On Becoming a Physicist of Mind. Annual Review of Linguistics 6:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Sprenger, Simone A., Amélie la Roi & Jacolien van Rij
2019. The Development of Idiom Knowledge Across the Lifespan. Frontiers in Communication 4
Lõo, Kaidi, Juhani Järvikivi, Fabian Tomaschek, Benjamin V. Tucker & R. Harald Baayen
2018. Production of Estonian case-inflected nouns shows whole-word frequency and paradigmatic effects. Morphology 28:1 ► pp. 71 ff.
van Maanen, Leendert, Joaquina Couto, Mael Lebreton & Jean Daunizeau
2016. Three Boundary Conditions for Computing the Fixed-Point Property in Binary Mixture Data. PLOS ONE 11:11 ► pp. e0167377 ff.
Shaoul, Cyrus, R. Harald Baayen & Chris F. Westbury
van Maanen, Leendert, Ritske de Jong, Hedderik van Rijn & Jesus Gomez-Gardenes
2014. How to Assess the Existence of Competing Strategies in Cognitive Tasks: A Primer on the Fixed-Point Property. PLoS ONE 9:8 ► pp. e106113 ff.
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