Year: 2000
Type: dissertation
Abstract: A central concern of psycholinguistic research is explaining the relative ease or difficulty involved in processing words. In this thesis, we explore the connection between lexical processing effort and measurable properties of the linguistic environment. Distributional information (information about a word's contexts of use) is easily extracted from large language corpora in the form of co-occurrence statistics. We claim that such simple distributional statistics can form the basis of a parsimonious model of lexical processing effort.
Source: ERA
Author: Scott A. McDonald
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2095684787