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Direct linkDewhurst, Stephen A.; Barry, Christopher – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 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. The present study used the Klein effect to investigate the relationship between frequency and age of acquisition (AoA) by measuring their influence on color naming. Two experiments…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Predictor Variables, Age, Language Acquisition
