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Contextual diversity, not word frequency, determines word naming and lexical decision times
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Adelman, James S. , Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.) and Quesada, José F. (2005) Contextual diversity, not word frequency, determines word naming and lexical decision times. In: 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada, 10-13 Nov 2005. Published in: Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, Vol.10 pp. 80-81. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Word frequency is the most important known predictor of word naming and lexical decision times. It is, however, confounded with contextual diversity, the number of contexts in which a word has been seen. With a normative, corpus-based measure of contextual diversity, word frequency effects were eliminated by contextual diversity (but not vice versa) across three naming and three lexical decision data sets, using any of three corpora to derive the frequency and contextual diversity values. This result is incompatible with existing models of visual word recognition, which attribute frequency effects directly to frequency, and is particularly problematic for accounts in which frequency effects reflect learning. It is argued that the result reflects the importance of likely need in memory and that the continuity with memory suggests using
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| Item Type: | Conference Item (Poster) | ||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Language and languages -- Word frequency, Psycholinguistics, Cognition, Cognitive science | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society | ||||
| Official Date: | November 2005 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.10 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 80-81 | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
| Conference Paper Type: | Poster | ||||
| Title of Event: | 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society | ||||
| Type of Event: | Conference | ||||
| Location of Event: | Toronto, Canada | ||||
| Date(s) of Event: | 10-13 Nov 2005 |
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