Effect of Lexical Frequency and Neighborhood Density on Audiovisual Spoken Word Recognition
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The current study investigated how lexical factors influence the intelligibility of spoken words, and how those effects interact with visual information. A forced-choice word-identification experiment was carried out under auditory-visual and auditoryonly conditions with varying S/N ratios, and the effects of lexical frequency and neighborhood density on identification accuracy were analyzed. The results showed a significant interaction between frequency and modality: in auditory-only condition, words with high frequency (within the forced-choice options) were recognized more accurately, while in auditory-visual condition, words with low frequency were recognized more accurately. The effect of neighborhood density was also significant: words from dense neighborhoods were recognized more accurately than words from sparse neighborhoods.
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