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Direct linkMahowald, Kyle; Fedorenko, Evelina; Piantadosi, Steven T.; Gibson, Edward – Cognition, 2013
A major open question in natural language research is the role of communicative efficiency in the origin and on-line processing of language structures. Here, we use word pairs like "chimp/chimpanzee", which differ in length but have nearly identical meanings, to investigate the communicative properties of lexical systems and the communicative…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Natural Language Processing, Information Theory
Campanella, Fabio; Shallice, Tim – Cognition, 2011
While many behavioural studies on refractory phenomena in lexical/semantic access have focused on the mechanisms involved in the oral production of names, comprehension tasks have been almost exclusively used in neuropsychological studies on brain damaged patients. We report the results of two experiments on healthy participants conducted by means…
Descriptors: Semantics, Serial Ordering, Patients, Brain
Boulenger, Veronique; Decoppet, Nathalie; Roy, Alice C.; Paulignan, Yves; Nazir, Tatjana A. – Cognition, 2007
There is growing evidence that words that are acquired early in life are processed faster and more accurately than words acquired later, even by adults. As neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies have implicated different brain networks in the processing of action verbs and concrete nouns, the present study was aimed at contrasting reaction…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Processing, Word Frequency, Nouns
Corley, Martin; MacGregor, Lucy J.; Donaldson, David I. – Cognition, 2007
Everyday speech is littered with disfluency, often correlated with the production of less predictable words (e.g., Beattie & Butterworth [Beattie, G., & Butterworth, B. (1979). Contextual probability and word frequency as determinants of pauses in spontaneous speech. "Language and Speech, 22," 201-211.]). But what are the effects of disfluency on…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Word Frequency, Speech Communication, Recognition (Psychology)
van Gompel, Roger P. G.; Majid, Asifa – Cognition, 2004
An eye-movement reading experiment investigated whether the ease with which pronouns are processed is affected by the lexical frequency of their antecedent. Reading times following pronouns with infrequent antecedents were faster than following pronouns with frequent antecedents. We argue that this is consistent with a saliency account, according…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Eye Movements
Pylkkanen, Liina; Feintuch, Sophie; Hopkins, Emily; Marantz, Alec – Cognition, 2004
Schreuder and Baayen (Schreuder. R., & Baayen, R. H. (1997). How complex simplex words can be. "Journal of Memory and Language" 37, 118-139) report that lexical decision times to nouns are not sensitive to the cumulative frequency of the noun's morphological derivatives in its ''morphological family'', even though such a cumulative frequency…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphology (Languages), Word Frequency, Reaction Time
