This contribution examines the macro quantitative features of 15 lowfrequency word classes. The relationship between word frequency classes and the sizes of the frequency classes obeys Altmann’s power law, and the sizes of lowfrequency word classes increase along with the increase of text length. The relationship between text length and the sizes of low-frequency word classes also obeys Altmann...

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...

s from my papers Nils E Eriksson, Halmstad, Sweden 1972-1979 (Eriksson, Formgren et al. 1972; Eriksson 1973; Ahlstedt, Belin et al. 1975; Eriksson, Lindgren et al. 1975; Eriksson, Lindgren et al. 1975; Formgren and Eriksson 1975; Borulf, Eriksson et al. 1976; Eriksson 1976; Eriksson, Ahlstedt et al. 1976; Ahlstedt and Eriksson 1977; Eriksson 1977; Eriksson 1977; Eriksson 1977; Eriksson and Ahls...

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...

The pioneering research of G. K. Zipf on the relationship between word frequency and other word features led to the formulation of various linguistic laws. Here we focus on a couple of them: the meaning-frequency law, i.e. the tendency of more frequent words to be more polysemous, and the law of abbreviation, i.e. the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter. Here we evaluate the robustnes...

Alessandra Buonanno, Günter Sigl, Georg G. Raffelt, Hans-Thomas Janka, Ewald Müller GReCO, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, C.N.R.S., 98 bis boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France b AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC), 11, place Marcelin Berthelot, F-75005 Paris, France Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, 80805 München, Germany Max-Planck-Institut für...

Abstra ct. Thi s pap er describes a connectioni st mod el of prin t-tosound transformation ("word naming" or "reading aloud" ). T he associative network it uses is based on published stu dies of oral reading, and simulat ion res ults are compare d to experiment al data in t he psy chological literature. Th e results ob ta ined are of interest for two separa te reasons. Fir st , the print-to-sou...

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Syllables exist in most, if not all, languages as a basic unit of prosodic and rhythmic structure. For native English speakers, the number of syllables a given word contains is often intuitively clear (e.g., Liberman et al., 1974). This is so even though it has been extremely difficult to agree on a phonetic definition of syllables (Ohala, 1990). While syllables are found in all languages, at t...

Lexical frequency and phonological neighbourhood density have been found to influence vowel production. This experiment investigated the effect of lexical frequency and phonological neighbourhood density on vowel space expansion in words and nonwords. Twenty speakers produced words varying in phonological neighbourhood density and word frequency and produced nonwords that varied in neighbourhoo...