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Yates, Mark – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
The author investigated the role of phonological neighborhood on visual word recognition. Using a lexical decision task, the author showed in Experiment 1 that words with large phonological neighborhoods were processed more rapidly than those with smaller phonological neighborhoods. This facilitative effect was obtained even when the nonword…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phonology, Word Processing, Neighborhoods
Williams, Robert I.; Nattinger, James R. – 1972
The purpose of this study was to locate those measurable criteria of responsiveness to language which have not been utilized to any significant extent in standardized tests. The project involved creating a testing instrument, reviewing of the instrument by a panel of experts, and applying the resultant test to a small population of college…
Descriptors: College Students, Deep Structure, Dialects, Discourse Analysis