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C M Connine1, D Titone, J Wang.
Abstract
Two experiments investigated the influence of word frequency in a phoneme identification task. Speech voicing continua were constructed so that one endpoint was a high-frequency word and the other endpoint was a low-frequency word (e.g., best-pest). Experiment 1 demonstrated that ambiguous tokens were labeled such that a high-frequency word was formed (intrinsic frequency effect). Experiment 2 manipulated the frequency composition of the list (extrinsic frequency effect). A high-frequency list bias produced an exaggerated influence of frequency; a low-frequency list bias showed a reverse frequency effect. Reaction time effects were discussed in terms of activation and postaccess decision models of frequency coding. The results support a late use of frequency in auditory word recognition.Entities:
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Year: 1993 PMID: 8423435 DOI: 10.1037//0278-7393.19.1.81
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn ISSN: 0278-7393 Impact factor: 3.051