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Siew, Cynthia S. Q.; Engelthaler, Tomas; Hills, Thomas T. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
How does the relation between two words create humor? In this article, we investigated the effect of global and local contrast on the humor of word pairs. We capitalized on the existence of psycholinguistic lexical norms by examining violations of expectations set up by typical patterns of English usage (global contrast) and within the local…
Descriptors: Semantics, Humor, Norms, Language Patterns
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Endress, Ansgar D.; Hauser, Marc D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Rules, and exceptions to such rules, are ubiquitous in many domains, including language. Here we used simple artificial grammars to investigate the influence of 2 factors on the acquisition of rules and their exceptions, namely type frequency (the relative numbers of different exceptions to different regular items) and token frequency (the number…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Familiarity