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Serial Mechanisms in Lexical Access: The Rank Hypothesis.
Abstract
There is general agreement that the effect of frequency on lexical access time is roughly logarithmic, although little attention has been given to the reason for this. The authors argue that models of lexical access that incorporate a frequency-ordered serial comparison or verification procedure provide an account of this effect and predict that the underlying function directly relates access time to the rank order of words in a frequency-ordered set. For both group data and individual data, it is shown that rank provides a better fit to the data than does a function based on log frequency. Extensions to a search model are proposed that account for error rates and latencies and the effect of age of acquisition, which is interpreted as an effect of cumulative frequency.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Murray, W. S., & Forster, K. I.
- Venue
- Psychological Review
- Published
- 2004
- Volume
- 111
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 721-756
- ISSN
- 0033-295X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1471
- OpenAlex
- W2057661285
- Cited by
- 228
- References
- 9
- FWCI
- 13.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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