Is the Word Frequency Effect on Recognition Threshold a Function of Transitional Probability?

1970 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Kinsbourne ◽  
Nicholas Evens
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Word Frequency ◽  
Recognition Threshold ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Transitional Probability ◽  
Word Frequency Effect

Frequently used 5- and 6-letter words incorporate letter sequences of higher digram and trigram frequency than rare words. This could account for some or all of the frequency of usage effect on word recognition threshold.

scholarly journals Dual-stage and dual-deficit? Word recognition processes during text reading across the reading fluency continuum

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarkko Hautala ◽  
Stefan Hawelka ◽  
Mikko Aro
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Word Frequency ◽  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Word Length ◽  
Fixation Duration ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Word Frequency Effect ◽  
Poor Reading ◽  
Dual Stage ◽  
Dual Route

AbstractCentral questions in the study of visual word recognition and developmental dyslexia are whether early lexical activation precedes and supports decoding (a dual-stage view) or not (dual-route view), and the locus of deficits in dysfluent reading. The dual-route view predicts early word frequency and length interaction, whereas the dual-stage view predicts word frequency effect to precede the interaction effect. These predictions were tested on eye movements data collected from (n = 152) children aged 9–10 among whom reading dysfluency was overrepresented. In line with the dual-stage view, the results revealed an early word frequency effect in first fixation duration followed by robust word length effect in refixation probability and an interaction of word frequency and word length in summed refixation duration. This progression was advanced in fluent reading to be observable already in first fixation duration. Poor reading fluency was mostly explained by inflated first fixation durations, and to stronger word frequency and length effects in summed refixation duration. This pattern of results suggests deficits in early letter encoding and slowness in serial grapheme-phoneme conversion. In contrast to the widely held belief, the holistic orthographic processing of words seemed to be intact.

Temporal contrast and the word frequency effect.

1979 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. May ◽  
Lauren J. Cuddy ◽  
Janice M. Norton
Keyword(s):  
Word Frequency ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Temporal Contrast ◽  
Word Frequency Effect

scholarly journals The word frequency effect and lexical access

1982 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 615-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Segui ◽  
Jacques Mehler ◽  
Uli Frauenfelder ◽  
John Morton
Keyword(s):  
Word Frequency ◽  
Lexical Access ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Word Frequency Effect
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