The word frequency effect: A review of recent developments and implications for the choice of frequency estimates in German

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 412-424

  Brysbaert, Marc ^a   Buchmeier, Matthias ^b   Conrad, Markus ^c   Jacobs, Arthur M ^c   Bölte, Jens ^b   Böhl, Andrea ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lexical decision; Megastudy; Word frequency; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCABULARY;

EID: 80051997594     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000123     Document Type: Article

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