Lexical knowledge in word recognition: Word length and word frequency in naming and lexical decision tasks

Hudson, Peter; Bergman, M.

doi:10.1016/0749-596x(85)90015-4

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“…With respect to the correlations among independent variables and naming latencies, the results indicated that LET and SYL are the variables that correlated the most with naming latency (.47 and .35, respectively), so that shorter words and words with fewer syllables were pronounced faster than longer words and words with a higher number of syllables (for similar high correlations for languages such as English and Dutch, see, e.g., Gilhooly & Logie, 1981;Hudson & Bergman, 1985;Morrison & Ellis, 2000).…”

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Word naming times and psycholinguistic norms for Italian nouns

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Burani

Arduino

2002

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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Word naming times and psycholinguistic norms for Italian nouns

Barca

Burani

Arduino

2002

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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“…This ® nding can be illustrated with the variable of word length. For adults, the regression weight usually¯uctuates around 3± 5 msec per letter (Brysbaert, 1992;Hudson & Bergman, 1985); in the present study, it was 16 msec per letter. The larger impact of this variable for children than for adults may imply that the e ect of a factor (even of word frequency) is more easy to demonstrate in children.…”

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Word Frequency Affects Naming Latency in Dutch when Age of Acquisition is Controlled

Brysbaert¹

1996

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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Morrison and Ellis (1995) claim that most evidence of frequency e ects in word recognition is not genuine but an artefact of the age at which the words have been acquired. The ® nding that age of acquisition (AOA) has a reliable independent e ect on word naming is replicated for the Dutch language. However, it is also shown that the e ect of word frequency remains reliable with AOA controlled. A possible interpretation is that the English studies have been based on retrospective student ratings, whereas in the present study a more on-line measure of AOA was used.

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“…Word length measured in terms of its orthographical (number of letters) or its phonological (number of syllables or phonemes) aspects shows a positive correlation with wordnaming and recognition times (Balota et al, 2004;Hudson & Bergman, 1985). Phonological and orthographic measures of word length are also strongly intercorrelated in mainstream words, since increasing the number of syllables or phonemes inevitably increases the number of letters.…”

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A normative study of acronyms and acronym naming

Izura

Playfoot

2011

Behav Res

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Acronyms are an idiosyncratic part of our everyday vocabulary. Research in word processing has used acronyms as a tool to answer fundamental questions such as the nature of the word superiority effect (WSE) or which is the best way to account for word-reading processes. In this study, acronym naming was assessed by looking at the influence that a number of variables known to affect mainstream word processing has had in acronym naming. The nature of the effect of these factors on acronym naming was examined using a multilevel regression analysis. First, 146 acronyms were described in terms of their age of acquisition, bigram and trigram frequencies, imageability, number of orthographic neighbors, frequency, orthographic and phonological length, print-to-pronunciation patterns, and voicing characteristics. Naming times were influenced by lexical and sublexical factors, indicating that acronym naming is a complex process affected by more variables than those previously considered.

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Lexical knowledge in word recognition: Word length and word frequency in naming and lexical decision tasks

Cited by 131 publications

References 26 publications

Word naming times and psycholinguistic norms for Italian nouns

Word naming times and psycholinguistic norms for Italian nouns

Word Frequency Affects Naming Latency in Dutch when Age of Acquisition is Controlled

A normative study of acronyms and acronym naming

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