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Hawelka, Stefan; Schuster, Sarah; Gagl, Benjamin; Hutzler, Florian – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2013
The study assessed the eye movements of 60 adult German readers during silent reading of target words, consisting of two and three syllables, embedded in sentences. The first objective was to assess whether the inhibitory effect of first syllable frequency, which was up to now primarily shown for isolated words, generalises to natural reading. The…
Descriptors: Syllables, Word Frequency, Orthographic Symbols, Eye Movements
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Simon, Dylan Alexander; Lewis, Gwyneth; Marantz, Alec – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
We present an MEG study of homonym recognition in reading, identifying effects of a semantic measure of homonym ambiguity. This measure sheds light on two competing theories of lexical access: the "early access" theory, which entails that lexical access occurs at early (pre 200 ms) stages of processing; and the "late access" theory, which…
Descriptors: Semantics, Ambiguity (Semantics), Vocabulary, Word Recognition
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Mok, Leh Woon – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
The word-superiority effect (WSE) describes the superior recognition of word constituents in a word, as opposed to a non-word, context. In this study, the WSE was used as a diagnostic tool to examine the modulatory effect of word semantic transparency on the degree to which Chinese bimorphemic compound words are lexically represented as unitised…
Descriptors: Chinese, Semantics, Morphemes, Word Frequency
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Juhasz, Barbara J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
Two experiments are reported which investigated morphological processing in English using bilexemic compound words. Long and short compound words were presented in neutral sentences and eye movements were recorded while participants read the sentences to investigate the time course of compound word recognition. In Experiment 1, the frequency of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Eye Movements, Word Recognition, Human Body
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Balling, Laura Winther; Baayen, R. Harald – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
In this study, we investigate the processing of morphologically complex words in Danish using auditory lexical decision. We document a second critical point in auditory comprehension in addition to the Uniqueness Point (UP), namely the point at which competing morphological continuation forms of the base cease to be compatible with the input,…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Morphology (Languages), Word Recognition, Word Frequency
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Conrad, Markus; Carreiras, Manuel; Jacobs, Arthur M. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
In psycholinguistic research, there is still considerable debate about whether the type or token count of the frequency of a particular unit of language better predicts word recognition performance. The present study extends this distinction of type and token measures to the investigation of possible causes underlying syllable frequency effects.…
Descriptors: Syllables, Word Recognition, Psycholinguistics, Inhibition
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Chen, Hsin-Chin; Vaid, Jyotsna – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2007
Do native readers segment polysyllabic words based on orthographic/morphological criteria or phonological criteria? Research by Taft (1979, 2001) argues in support of the former, as readers were faster in split-word lexical decision tasks when the words were segmented by orthographic/ morphological principles based on Basic Orthographic Syllable…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Syllables, Word Recognition, Orthographic Symbols
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Zhou, Xiaolin; Marslen-Wilson, William – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1994
Three experiments used the differential frequency effect as a diagnostic tool to investigate the mental representation of disyllabic compound words in Mandarin Chinese. The results indicated that, when both word frequency and morpheme frequency were held constant, high-frequency first syllables slowed responses to real words. (41 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Foreign Countries, Language Processing
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Goldinger, Stephen D. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Emphasizes that auditory lexical decision has wide applicability and that the paradigm is currently used to study basic processes in word recognition, the nature of the mental lexicon, effects of word frequency, neighbor effects and various other phenomena of isolated word perception. Article reviews the strengths and weaknesses of this task. (54…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Decision Making, Language Processing
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Nickels, Lyndsey – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Different models of spoken word production make different predictions regarding the extent of effects of certain word properties on the output of that model. This article examines these predictions with regard to the effect of these variables on the production of semantic and phonological errors by aphasic subjects. (60 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Error Analysis (Language), Language Research, Measures (Individuals)
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Zwitserlood, Pienie; Schriefers, Herbert – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Current models of spoken-word recognition describe access to lexical representations in terms of activation and decay. This research investigated an important aspect of activation: the impact of processing time. The results showed a separable impact of time and signal on the activational state of lexical elements. (34 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Auditory Stimuli, College Students, Computational Linguistics