Word frequency effects on homophonous words in Mandarin Chinese
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Previous work on the effects of word usage frequency on production has found a significant correlation between the usage frequency and duration of the word. This study examines usage frequency effects on the production of homophonous words in a corpus of Mandarin Chinese, seeking to determine the validity of previous results crosslinguistically. Analysis of the corpus reveals a similar pattern to that found in spoken English, but with additional differences at the high and low end of the usage frequency spectrum.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015