RESOLVING 20 YEARS OF INCONSISTENT INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LEXICAL FAMILIARITY AND ORTHOGRAPHY, CONCRETENESS, AND POLYSEMY
RESOLVING 20 YEARS OF INCONSISTENT INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LEXICAL FAMILIARITY AND ORTHOGRAPHY, CONCRETENESS, AND POLYSEMY
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DOI:
10.1037/0096-3445.113.2.256
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
GERNSBACHER, MA
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作者:
GERNSBACHER, MA
Word recognition studies conducted over the past 2 decades manipulated lexical familiarity by presenting words of high vs low printed frequency, and most reported an interaction between printed frequency and one of several second variables, namely, orthographic regularity, semantic concreteness, or polysemy. However, the direction of these interactions was inconsistent from study to study. Six new experiments clarify these discordant results. Exps I and II, conducted with 89 college students, demonstrate that words of the same low printed frequency are not always equally familiar to Ss. Instead, Ss' ratings of experiential familiarity suggest that many of the low-printed-frequency words used in prior studies varied along this dimension. Four lexical decision experiments, conducted with 78 undergraduates, reexamined the prior findings by orthogonally manipulating lexical familiarity, as assessed by experiential familiarity ratings, with bigram frequency, semantic concreteness, and number of meanings. Results suggest that of these variables, only experiential familiarity reliably affects word recognition latencies. This in turn suggests that previous inconsistent findings were due to confounding experiential familiarity with a second variable.(68 ref)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)