NDLI: Effects of frequency on the auditory perception of open- versus closed-class words

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Haveman, A.P.
Copyright Year	1996
Description	Author affiliation: Max-Planck-inst. fur Psycholinguists, Nijmegen, Netherlands (Haveman, A.P.)
Abstract	Over the past couple of decades, it has been repeatedly investigated whether open-class items are processed in a different way from closed-class items. Most studies, however, have been bedeviled by difficulties in controlling all relevant distinctions between open- and closed-class items. For example, whereas open-class items have a relatively low frequency of occurrence, closed-class words have a very high frequency. The current study investigates auditory lexical decisions on open- versus closed-class items when the effect of frequency is controlled. Results revealed faster responses to high frequency open-class items when compared to closed-class items of similar frequency. Furthermore, responses to both low frequency open-class items and nonwords were significantly different from the responses to the high frequency open-class items, but not from responses to the high frequency closed-class items. Similar latencies for closed-class items and nonwords suggest that the open/closed-class distinction might be due to the clear lexical meaning of open-class items as opposed to the more grammatical function of closed-class words.
Starting Page	78
Ending Page	81
File Size	451204
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780335554
DOI	10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607034
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1996-10-03
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Vocabulary Natural languages Psychology Frequency Speech processing Delay
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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