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Effect of word frequency on thinking of a word

Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1966
Three experiments were performed to determine the effect of word frequency on thinking of a word. In all experiments Ss were given certain characteristics of words, such as the first letter, the last letter, the number of letters, or the class of the object named by the word, and were asked to think of a word fitting the given characteristics.
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Word frequency, function words and the second gavagai problem

Cognition, 2013
The classic gavagai problem exemplifies the difficulty to identify the referent of a novel word uttered in a foreign language. Here, we consider the reverse problem: identifying the referential part of a label. Assuming "gavagai" indicates a rabbit in a foreign language, it may very well mean "a rabbit" or "that rabbit".
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Word Frequency Effects for LEET Lettering in Word Recognition

The American Journal of Psychology, 2016
Abstract letter substitution has been shown to have a cost to word recognition performance, such as increased reaction time. the use of orthographically similar numbers or symbols as a substitute for letters is known as leet. Perea, duñabeitia, and carreiras (2008) showed that word recognition was not affected when leet substitutions ...
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Word-Association as a Function of Word-Frequency

The American Journal of Psychology, 1952
C N, COFER, R, SHEVITZ
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WORD FREQUENCY EFFECT IN FALSE MEMORIES

Psychological Reports, 2005
Fuzzy Trace Theory argues that false memories arise from a weak verbatim memory along with strong encoding of the meaning (gist). The present study simultaneously investigated the effects of the strength of both the gist and the verbatim information on false memories. Exp.
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Frequency of Usage and the Perception of Words

Science, 1958
Rosenzweig, M., Postman, L.
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Word-Association and Word-Frequency

The American Journal of Psychology, 1956
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Word Length and Word Frequency

2006
Udo Strauss, Peter Grzybek, Gabriel Altmann   +2 more
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Word Affect and Word Frequency in Written English

The Journal of General Psychology, 1966
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Lexis, Word Frequencies, and Word Type

1998
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