Goh, Winston D., Suarez, Lidia, Yap, Melvin J., and Tan, Seok Hui (2008) Distributional analyses in auditory lexical decision: neighborhood density and word frequency effects. In: Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society (13) 3009. p. 87. From: 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 13-16 November 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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The effects of phonological neighborhood density and word frequency in spoken word recognition were examined using distributional analyses of response latencies in auditory lexical decision. A density X frequency interaction was observed in mean latencies; frequency effects were larger for low-density words than for high-density words. Distributional analyses revealed that this interaction was primarily due to differential shifting of the modal portion of the latency distribution between high- and low-frequency words as a function of density. For low-density words, frequency effects were reflected in both distributional shifting and skewing. For high-density words, frequency effects were mediated purely by distributional skewing. The results suggest that word frequency plays a role in early auditory word recognition only when there is relatively little competition between similar-sounding words.

Item ID:	28800
Item Type:	Conference Item (Poster)
Keywords:	phonological neighborhood density, word frequency, psycholinguistics, word recognition
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