Rethinking the Word Frequency Effect: The Neglected Role of Distributional Information in Lexical Processing.

McDonald, Scott A.; Shillcock, Richard C.

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ERIC Number: EJ639369

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Publication Date: 2001

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Rethinking the Word Frequency Effect: The Neglected Role of Distributional Information in Lexical Processing.

McDonald, Scott A.; Shillcock, Richard C.

Language and Speech, v44 n3 p295-323 Sep 2001

Presents a new dimension of lexical variation--contextual distinctiveness. CD is a corpus-derived summary measure of the frequency distribution of the contexts in which a word occurs, and it is naturally compatible with contextual theories of semantic representation and meaning. An experiment shows that CD is a better predictor of lexical decision latencies than occurrence frequency. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Context Effect, Language Processing, Semantics, Speech Communication, Word Frequency, Word Recognition

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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