Abstract social categories facilitate access to socially skewed words.

Recent work has shown that listeners process words faster if said by a member of the group that typically uses the word. This paper further explores how the social distributions of words affect lexical access by exploring whether access is facilitated by invoking more abstract social categories. We...

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Main Authors: Jennifer Hay, Abby Walker, Kauyumari Sanchez, Kirsty Thompson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210793