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Hendrix, Peter; Bolger, Patrick; Baayen, Harald – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Recent studies have documented frequency effects for word n-grams, independently of word unigram frequency. Further studies have revealed constructional prototype effects, both at the word level as well as for phrases. The present speech production study investigates the time course of these effects for the production of prepositional phrases in…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Brain, Cognitive Measurement, Speech
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Jalbert, Annie; Neath, Ian; Bireta, Tamra J.; Surprenant, Aimee M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The word length effect, the finding that lists of short words are better recalled than lists of long words, has been termed one of the benchmark findings that any theory of immediate memory must account for. Indeed, the effect led directly to the development of working memory and the phonological loop, and it is viewed as the best remaining…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Language Processing, Learning Processes
Tommola, Jorma – 1983
The effects of topical coherence on the comprehension of two groups of non-native (Finnish) users of English and a control group of English native speakers were observed, with reaction times from a visual word monitoring task as the dependent measure. The experiment examined the ability of intermediate and advanced second language students to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Measurement, College Students, English (Second Language)