Two experiments employing an auditory priming paradigm were conducted to test predictions of the Neighborhood Activation Model of spoken word recognition (Luce & Pisoni, 1989, Neighborhoods of words in the mental lexicon. Manuscript under review). Acoustic-phonetic similarity, neighborhood densities, and frequencies of prime and target words were manipulated. In Experiment 1, priming with low frequency, phonetically related spoken words inhibited target recognition, as predicted by the Neighborhood Activation Model. In Experiment 2, the same prime-target pairs were presented with a longer inter-stimulus interval and the effects of priming were eliminated. In both experiments, predictions derived from the Neighborhood Activation Model regarding the effects of neighborhood density and word frequency were supported. The results are discussed in terms of competing activation of lexical neighbors and the dissociation of activation and frequency in spoken word recognition.

中文翻译：

---

启动口语的词汇邻居：竞争和抑制的影响

进行了两个采用听觉启动范式的实验来测试对口语识别的邻里激活模型的预测（Luce & Pisoni，1989，心理词典中的词邻域。正在审查的手稿）。操纵了声学-语音相似性、邻域密度以及主要词和目标词的频率。在实验 1 中，正如邻域激活模型所预测的那样，用低频、语音相关的口语启动会抑制目标识别。在实验 2 中，相同的主要目标对呈现更长的刺激间隔，并消除了启动的影响。在这两个实验中，支持从邻域激活模型得出的关于邻域密度和词频影响的预测。