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Jones, Michael N.; Dye, Melody; Johns, Brendan T. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Classic accounts of lexical organization posit that humans are sensitive to environmental frequency, suggesting a mechanism for word learning based on repetition. However, a recent spate of evidence has revealed that it is not simply frequency but the diversity and distinctiveness of contexts in which a word occurs that drives lexical…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Vocabulary Development, Context Effect, Semantics