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Montag, Jessica L Federmeier, Kara D 2022-12 application/pdf en text Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms The student, Jacqueline Erens, accepted the attached license on 2022-12-08 at 09:37. The student, Jacqueline Erens, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2022-12-08 at 09:58. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2022-12-08 at 15:10. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #18775 on 2023-04-12 at 07:39:33 The impact of semantic relatedness on speaking durations in sentences Erens, Jacqueline Annette 2022-12-08 Language Production Semantic Interference Semantic Relatedness Co-occurrence Distributional Similarity A fundamental question in the study of language production is how the organization of words and concepts in semantic memory affect the recall and planning of these words and concepts. Semantic interference effects have been found throughout a variety of language production tasks. At the same time, facilitatory priming effects in language suggest that there are cases where semantic relatedness between entities may result in facilitation for speakers. One possible explanation is that the source of relatedness, ie whether entities are distributionally similar or co-occurring, may both production but in different ways, resulting in either facilitation or interference depending on the specific type of relatedness. The present study uses a picture description sentence production task to gain more insight into how different sources of semantic relatedness may impact language production. We find evidence for facilitation regardless of the source of semantic relatedness such that speaking durations were shorter when speakers produced sentences containing semantically related entities. These findings suggest that semantic relatedness can impact language production such that semantically related entities “prime” each other and facilitate recall and planning. We discuss how aspects of the experimental task as well as the operationalization of different types of semantic relatedness may affect the pattern results observed here, or that may arise in future studies. Thesis eng https://hdl.handle.net/2142/117845 Copyright 2022 Jacqueline Erens M.S. Thesis Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Psychology