Reassessing word frequency as a determinant of word recognition for skilled and unskilled readers.
Reassessing word frequency as a determinant of word recognition for skilled and unskilled readers.
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DOI：
10.1037/a0030859
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发表时间：
2013-06
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Van Dyke, Julie A.
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作者：
Kuperman, Victor;Van Dyke, Julie A.
词汇在阅读理解中的重要性强调了准确评估个人对单词熟悉程度的必要性。本文强调了使用语料库中的出现计数作为单词熟悉度的指标的问题，特别是当研究个体在阅读经验方面的差异时。我们证明，通过计算模拟和规范的研究，基于语料库的词频系统高估的单词表征的强度，特别是在低频范围内，在较小的词汇。从不同经验水平的应答者收集的主观频率评级忠实地捕捉到了经验驱动的单词熟悉度差异。在这些水平上匹配时，这个词汇测量比基于语料库的频率解释更多的变化，在不同的阅读经验和技能的人群中证明，在眼动和词汇决策的词汇。此外，主观频率的使用消除了广泛报道的（语料库）频率与技能的相互作用，表明更熟练的读者在处理任何单词时都比不熟练的读者同样快，而不是在处理低频单词时更快。这一发现挑战了这样一种观点，即一个人在文字处理的通用机制中越熟练，他/她就越不依赖于该词的实际词汇特征。
The importance of vocabulary in reading comprehension emphasizes the need to accurately assess an individual’s familiarity with words. The present article highlights problems with using occurrence counts in corpora as an index of word familiarity, especially when studying individuals varying in reading experience. We demonstrate via computational simulations and norming studies that corpus-based word frequencies systematically overestimate strengths of word representations, especially in the low-frequency range and in smaller-size vocabularies. Experience-driven differences in word familiarity prove to be faithfully captured by the subjective frequency ratings collected from responders at different experience levels. When matched on those levels, this lexical measure explains more variance than corpus-based frequencies in eye-movement and lexical decision latencies to English words, attested in populations with varied reading experience and skill. Furthermore, the use of subjective frequencies removes the widely reported (corpus) frequency-by-skill interaction, showing that more skilled readers are equally faster in processing any word than the less skilled readers, not disproportionally faster in processing lower-frequency words. This finding challenges the view that the more skilled an individual is in generic mechanisms of word processing the less reliant he/she will be on the actual lexical characteristics of that word.
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作者：
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通讯作者：
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影响因子：
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DOI：
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发表时间：
1984-01-01
影响因子：
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作者：
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通讯作者：
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