Abstract / Description of output
Word frequency effects have long served as an empirical and theoretical test bed for theories of language processing. A number of recent studies have suggested that Contextual Diversity (CD) is a better metric of retrieval processes than word frequency. Motivated by these findings, we sketch an active account of lexical access during sentence processing: language users store statistics about contextualized lexical representations and use lexical-contextual relations to both construct context and predict words given the context. In line with our account, we provide evidence from a frequency judgment experiment suggesting that words are not stored independently of their contexts of use. To further examine CD effects in reading, we analyzed reading times in self-paced reading and eye-tracking corpora. We demonstrate that as context is constructed, the role of CD in lexical retrieval is attenuated, reflecting a trade-off between context construction and contextualized word prediction.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2018) |
Subtitle of host publication | Changing/Minds |
Publisher | Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society |
Pages | 1205-1210 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-0-9911967-8-4 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781510872059 |
Publication status | Published - 28 Jul 2018 |
Event | 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Madison, United States Duration: 25 Jul 2018 → 28 Jul 2018 http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference/cogsci-2018/ |
Conference
Conference | 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society |
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Abbreviated title | CogSci 2018 |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Madison |
Period | 25/07/18 → 28/07/18 |
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