Probability and surprisal in auditory comprehension of morphologically complex words

Cognition

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 80-106

  Balling, Laura Winther ^a   Baayen, R Harald ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

(cumulative) Surprisal; Kullback Leibler divergence; Morphological family size; Morphological processing; Neighborhood measures; Shortlist B; Spoken word recognition; Uniqueness points

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; BAYES THEOREM; COGNITION; COMPLETE UNIQUENESS POINT; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENTROPY; EXPECTATION; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIQUENESS POINT; VISION;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84865306320     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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