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Direct linkKuperman, Victor; Van Dyke, Julie A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
The importance of vocabulary in reading comprehension emphasizes the need to accurately assess an individual's familiarity with words. The present article highlights problems with using occurrence counts in corpora as an index of word familiarity, especially when studying individuals varying in reading experience. We demonstrate via computational…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Word Recognition, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension
