The hypothesis that phonological mediation is involved to a greater extent in the recognition of lowthan in the recognition of high-frequency words was examined using Hebrew. Hebrew has two forms of spelling, pointed and unpointed, which differ greatly in the extent of phonological ambiguity, with the unpointed spelling lacking almost all vowel information. A lexical decision task was employed ...

Low-frequency words produce more hits and fewer false alarms than high-frequency words in a recognition task. The low-frequency hit rate advantage has sometimes been attributed to processes that operate during the recognition test (e.g., L. M. Reder et al., 2000). When tasks other than recognition, such as recall, cued recall, or associative recognition, are used, the effects seem to contradict...

The study of word frequency has been discussed by linguists, psychologists, and computer scientists. However, the results of these studies cannot be valid unless the corpus is big enough and properly-segmented. This paper observes the distributional information derived from word frequency based on . a 14-million-character corpus of Chinese newspaper (CKIP 1993). This is the first available Mand...

Recent studies suggest that high-frequency words may benefit speech segmentation (Bortfeld, Morgan, Golinkoff, & Rathbun, 2005) and grammatical categorisation (Monaghan, Christiansen, & Chater, 2007). To date, these tasks have been examined separately, but not together. We familiarised adults with continuous speech comprising repetitions of target words, and compared learning to a language in w...

The present study was undertaken to investigate the effects of varying frequency patterns (FPs) of words on the productive acquisition of a young EFL learner in a home setting. Target words were presented to the learner using games and role plays. They were subsequently traced for their frequencies in input and output. Eighteen immediate tests and delayed tests were administered to measure the ...

We analyze the ex-post variation of equity prices in the frequency domain. A realized periodogram-based estimator is proposed, which consistently estimates the quadratic variation of the log equilibrium price process. For prices which are contaminated by market microstructure noise, the proposed estimator behaves like a filter: it removes the noise by filtering out high frequency periodograms. ...

This paper reports a study which investigated if there was a match between students’ English vocabulary size and the vocabulary load of a locally produced textbook. The analysis of the passages of the pre-university English textbook currently in use in Iran’s education system using RANGE program indicated that in order to comprehend the texts, students need to know not only words from 2000 high...