Anchoring and contextual variation in the early stages of incidental word learning during reading
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2020.104203
Abstract: Abstract Lexical processing is influenced by a word’s semantic diversity, as estimated by corpus-derived metrics. Although this suggests that contextual variation shapes verbal learning and memory, it is not clear what semantic diversity represents and… read more here.
Keywords: contextual variation; semantic diversity; word learning; word ... See more keywords
What is semantic diversity and why does it facilitate visual word recognition?
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DOI: 10.3758/s13428-020-01440-1
Abstract: Previous research has speculated that semantic diversity and lexical ambiguity may be closely related constructs. Our research sought to test this claim in respect of the semantic diversity measure proposed by Hoffman et al. (… read more here.
Keywords: research; semantic diversity; word recognition; diversity ... See more keywords