Wewould like to begin by offering a new theoretical account of the duration-based part of the word length effect, inspired partly by the recent literature and partly by Service’s comments (this issue). Baddeley (1986) suggested that recall depends on the speed of a covert verbal rehearsal process. Cowan and colleagues have argued that it may, but that recall also depends on the speed of some so...

Zipf’s law states that the frequency of word tokens in a large corpus of natural language is inversely proportional to the rank. The law is investigated for two languages English and Mandarin and for ngram word phrases as well as for single words. The law for single words is shown to be valid only for high frequency words. However, when single word and n-gram phrases are combined together in on...

The study aimed to examine the cognitive mechanisms underlying ecstasy consumer’s impaired performance on verbal list learning tasks [1-5]. This was achieved by comparing levels of forgetting across a related and a nonrelated word list. Forgetting a word that was previously recalled once indicated forgetting at level one, forgetting a word that had been recalled twice is forgetting at level 2, ...

We present new and more efficient algorithms for regular language enumeration problems. The min-word problem is to find the lexicographically minimal word of length n accepted by a given NFA, the cross-section problem is to list all words of length n accepted by an NFA in lexicographical order, and the enumeration problem is to list the first m words accepted by an NFA according to length-lexic...

This paper reviews software design guidelines from the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and empirical results from the field of vocabulary acquisition. We categorize the empirical evidence in terms of three key aspects of instructional software for vocabulary teaching: task type, media and scheduling. We describe how design of an online adaptive vocabulary teaching system inc...

Experiments were designed to produce illusions of immediate memory and of perception, in order to demonstrate that subjective experience of familiarity and perceptual quality may rely on an unconscious attribution process. Subjects saw a short and rapidly presented list of words, then pronounced and judged a target word. We influenced the fluency of pronouncing the target through independent ma...

Monte Carlo integration has been a common approach for light transport simulation over many years. This widespread usage, however, seems to come with certain misconceptions regarding the behavior of error in Monte Carlo algorithms. In particular, unbiased Monte Carlo integration has been blindly (and often implicitly) considered as a holy grail of accurate light transport simulation by some peo...

Making Nation’s text analysis software accessible via the World Wide Web has opened up an exploration of how his learning principles can best be realized in practice. This paper discusses 3 representative episodes in the ongoing exploration. The first concerns an examination of the assumptions behind modeling what texts look like to learners with different levels of lexical knowledge; the secon...