Dog may also
activate words such as kennel, bone, and leash, which are schematically or
thematically linked to it. Such organization of vocabulary knowledge can be
probed by association tasks, whereby participants are asked to produce one
or more words associated with a cue word (e.g., de Deyne & Storms, 2008;
Sheng & McGregor, 2010) or to select, from a large set of words, those that are
associated with a cue word (Read, 1993).