The word frequency effect and lexical access

Segui, Juan; Mehler, Jacques; Frauenfelder, Ulrich Hans; Morton, John

doi:10.1016/0028-3932(82)90061-6

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The word frequency effect and lexical access

ContributorsSegui, Juan; Mehler, Jacques; Frauenfelder, Ulrich Hans; Morton, John

Published inNeuropsychologia, vol. 20, no. 6, p. 615-627

Publication date1982

Abstract

Some recent experiments suggest that only open class words show a frequency effect. Closed class items are accessed independently of their frequency. We carried out five experiments to test the validity of this hypothesis for the French language. All our results suggest that the frequency effect applies equally well to the open and closed class items.

Keywords

France
Humans
Language
Memory
Mental Recall
Psycholinguistics
Reaction Time
Reading
Semantics

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SEGUI, Juan et al. The word frequency effect and lexical access. In: Neuropsychologia, 1982, vol. 20, n° 6, p. 615–627. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(82)90061-6

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PID : unige:83838
DOI : 10.1016/0028-3932(82)90061-6
PMID : 7162585

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