Some sound changes seem to proceed at different rates depending on lexical frequency; these are often interpreted as reflecting phonetically detailed exemplar memories, with spreading via diffusion (Pierrehumbert 2002; Bybee 2012). However, such patterns do not necessarily require word-specific phonetic details. Variation associated frequency also exists when there is no evidence for a change i...

This article describes a lexical substitution dataset for German. The whole dataset contains 2,040 sentences from the German Wikipedia, with one target word in each sentence. There are 51 target nouns, 51 adjectives, and 51 verbs randomly selected from 3 frequency groups based on the lemma frequency list of the German WaCKy corpus. 200 sentences have been annotated by 4 professional annotators ...

ABSTRACT We use crowdsourcing to disambiguate 1000 words from among coarse-grained senses, the most extensive investigation to date. Ten unique participants disambiguate each example, and, using regression, we find surprising features which drive differential WSD accuracy: (a) the number of rephrasings within a sense definition is associated with higher accuracy; (b) as word frequency increases...

It is generally accepted that the left hemisphere (LH) is more capable for reading than the right hemisphere (RH). Left hemifield presentations (initially processed by the RH) lead to a globally higher error rate, slower word identification, and a significantly stronger word length effect (i.e., slower reaction times for longer words). Because the visuo-perceptual mechanisms of the brain for wo...

Transposed-letter effects (e.g., jugde activates judge) pose serious models for models of visual-word recognition that use position-specific coding schemes. However, even though the evidence of transposed-letter effects with nonword stimuli is strong, the evidence for word stimuli is scarce and inconclusive. The present experiment examined the effect of neighborhood frequency during normal sile...

Zipf's Law uncovers the relationship between word frequency and its rank. This paper addresses applicability of Zipf's Law in Chinese word frequency distribution. The previous studies on Zipf’s law in Chinese were primarily based on raw corpus, without word segmentation, hence there are obvious limitations. This study investigates the topic in several large-scale POS-tagged Chinese corpora. The...