A new word usage measure is proposed. It is based on psychophysical relations and allows to reveal words by their degree of "importance" for making basic educational dictionaries. It is accepted to rank words by their absolute (or proportional) frequency, when making a frequency list of text words. The researchers, feeling the imperfection of frequency as an unconditional indicator of word "imp...

This paper studies the effect of word frequency and neighbourhood density on lexical tone merge in Dalian Mandarin. Monosyllabic words with two lexical falling tones (i.e. Tone1 and Tone 4) are produced by 60 native speakers from two different generations (middle-aged vs. young). The stimuli consist of three conditions: high neighbourhood density with high word frequency (HDHF), high neighbourh...

We adapt the Higher Criticism (HC) goodness-of-fit test to measure closeness between word-frequency tables. apply this authorship attribution challenges, where goal is identify author of a document using other documents whose known. The method simple yet performs well without handcrafting and tuning; reporting accuracy at state art level in various current challenges. As an inherent side effect...

We report performance measures for lexical decision (LD), word naming (NMG), and progressive demasking (PDM) for a large sample of monosyllabic monomorphemic French words (N = 1,482). We compare the tasks and also examine the impact of word length, word frequency, initial phoneme, orthographic and phonological distance to neighbors, age-of-acquisition, and subjective frequency. Our results show...

Dynamics of average length of words in Russian and English is analysed in the article. Words belonging to the diachronic text corpus Google Books Ngram and dated back to the last two centuries are studied. It was found out that average word length slightly increased in the 19th century, and then it was growing rapidly most of the 20 century and started decreasing over the period from the end of...

In the study of recognition memory, a mirror effect is commonly observed for word frequency, with low frequency items yielding both a higher hit rate and lower false alarm rate than high frequency items. The finding that LF items consistently outperform HF items in recognition was once termed the “frequency paradox”, as LF items are less well represented in memory. However, recognition is known...

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Design science is an established approach in IS research and the literature provides us with a fruitful discussion on its basic concepts, for instance, the IS research cycle (Hevner, March, Park and Sudha 2004), IT artifacts (Orlikowski and Iacono 2001; Weber 2003), or design theories (Markus, Majchrzak and Gasser 2002; Walls, Widmeyer and El Sawy 1992). However, many authors advocating the sta...