Early EEG correlates of word frequency and contextual predictability in reading [PDF]
, 2019 Previous research into written language comprehension has been equivocal as to whether word frequency and contextual predictability effects share an early time course of processing.
Hand, Christopher J. +4 more
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Dissociating word frequency and age of acquisition: The Klein effect revived (and reversed). [PDF]
, 2006 The Klein effect (G. S. Klein, 1964) refers to the finding that high-frequency words produce greater interference in a color-naming task than low-frequency words.
Barry, Christopher, Dewhurst, Stephen A.
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Low-frequency neural activity reflects rule-based chunking during speech listening
eLife, 2020 Chunking is a key mechanism for sequence processing. Studies on speech sequences have suggested low-frequency cortical activity tracks spoken phrases, that is, chunks of words defined by tacit linguistic knowledge.
Peiqing Jin, Yuhan Lu, N. Ding
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Two outstanding questions in spoken-language comprehension concern (1) the interplay of phonological grammar (legal vs. illegal sound sequences), phonotactic frequency (high- vs. low-frequency sound sequences) and lexicality (words vs.
Susana Silva +6 more
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How phonological reductions sometimes help the listener [PDF]
, 2013 In speech production, high-frequency words are more likely than low-frequency words to be phonologically reduced. We tested in an eye-tracking experiment whether listeners can make use of this correlation between lexical frequency and phonological ...
Mitterer, Holger, Russell, Kevin
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Polysemy in the mental lexicon: relatedness and frequency affect representational overlap [PDF]
, 2016 Meaning relatedness affects storage of ambiguous words in the mental lexicon: unrelated meanings(homonymy) are stored separately whereas related senses (polysemy) are stored as one large representational entry.
Cleland, A.A., Green, Matthew, Jager, B.
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Independent distractor frequency and age-of-acquisition effects in picture-word interference: fMRI evidence for post-lexical and lexical accounts according to distractor type [PDF]
, 2012 In two fMRI experiments, participants named pictures with superimposed distractors that were high or low in frequency or varied in terms of age of acquisition.
de Zubicaray, Greig I. +4 more
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Word frequency effects on L2 learners' phonetic imitations [PDF]
JASA Express LettersWord frequency plays an important role in a variety of phonetic phenomena. One of the well-known observations is that low-frequency words exhibit more phonetic imitation than high-frequency words.
Daiki Hashimoto +2 more
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Strength of word-specific neural memory traces assessed electrophysiologically.
PLoS ONE, 2011 Memory traces for words are frequently conceptualized neurobiologically as networks of neurons interconnected via reciprocal links developed through associative learning in the process of language acquisition.
Alexander A Alexandrov +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The present study sought to establish how a word’s contextual predictability impacts the early stages of word processing when reading Chinese. Two eye-movement experiments were conducted in which the predictability of the target two-character word was ...
Zhifang Liu +3 more
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