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Subtlex-UK: A New and Improved Word Frequency Database for British English
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2014 We present word frequencies based on subtitles of British television programmes. We show that the SUBTLEX-UK word frequencies explain more of the variance in the lexical decision times of the British Lexicon Project than the word frequencies based on the
Walter J. B. van Heuven +3 more
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Word Frequency Cues Word Order in Adults: Cross-Linguistic Evidence
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 One universal feature of human languages is the division between grammatical functors and content words. From a learnability point of view, functors might provide entry points or anchors into the syntactic structure of utterances due to their high ...
Judit eGervain +9 more
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Cognition, 2019 Empirically-observed word frequency effects in regular sound change present a puzzle: how can high-frequency words change faster than low-frequency words in some cases, slower in other cases, and at the same rate in yet other cases?
Simon Todd, J. Pierrehumbert, J. Hay
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 The effects of word frequency and syllable frequency are well-established phenomena in domain such as spoken production in alphabetic languages. Chinese, as a non-alphabetic language, presents unique lexical and phonological properties in speech ...
Qingfang eZhang, Cheng eWang
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Positive words carry less information than negative words [PDF]
, 2012 We show that the frequency of word use is not only determined by the word length \cite{Zipf1935} and the average information content \cite{Piantadosi2011}, but also by its emotional content.
A Chmiel +45 more
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Lexical and post-lexical complexity effects on eye movements in reading
Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2011 The current study investigated how a post-lexical complexity manipulation followed by a lexical complexity manipulation affects eye movements during reading.
Tessa Warren +2 more
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Kairós in science blogging: immediacy, self-expression and audience engagement
DNA Di Nulla Academia, 2021 The present paper explores the rhetorical concept of «kairós» as a decisive factor of the argumentative success of scientific communications to highlight the linguistic shape it takes in science blogs.
Maria Freddi
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Emotion words and categories: evidence from lexical decision [PDF]
, 2013 We examined the categorical nature of emotion word recognition. Positive, negative, and neutral words were presented in lexical decision tasks. Word frequency was additionally manipulated.
O'Donnell, Patrick +2 more
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The company that words keep: comparing the statistical structure of child- versus adult-directed language [PDF]
, 2013 Does child-directed language differ from adult-directed language in ways that might facilitate word learning? Associative structure (the probability that a word appears with its free associates), contextual diversity, word repetitions and frequency were ...
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Analysis of word occurrence frequency and word association in English text file: A big data analytics method [PDF]
Network Biology, 2018 In present study, I presented an algorithm for analysis of word occurrence frequency and word association in English text file. Various delimiters were used for splitting words.
YanHong Qi, GuangHua Liu, WenJun Zhang
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