Orthographic neighborhood size, number of word meanings, and number of higher frequency neighbors  

Oleh:

Ferraro, F. Richard ; Hansen, Christopher L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 82 no. 2 (2002), page 200-205.
Topik: Word meaning; Lexical ambiguity; Neighborhood size; Word frequency; Lexical decision task
Fulltext: 82_02_Ferraro.pdf (75.69KB)

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The present lexical decision task experiment examined orthographic (large, medium, small), number-of-meanings (ambiguous, unambiguous), and number of higher frequency neighbors (few, many), factors that have to date not been studied simultaneously. For both mean reaction time and percentage error, the critical three-way interaction between these factors was significant. Breakdown of this interaction revealed that the ambiguity effect (unambiguous– ambiguous) decreased as neighborhood size increased, but only when there were many higher frequency neighbors in the neighborhood. These results appear inconsistent with serial search models but are understandable within the context of interactive-activation models of word recognition.

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