Journal article
Reassessing Word Frequency as a Determinant of Word Recognition for Skilled and Unskilled Readers
Abstract
The importance of vocabulary in reading comprehension emphasizes the need to accurately assess an individual's familiarity with words. The present article highlights problems with using occurrence counts in corpora as an index of word familiarity, especially when studying individuals varying in reading experience. We demonstrate via computational simulations and norming studies that corpus-based word frequencies systematically overestimate …
Authors
Kuperman V; Van Dyke JA
Journal
Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 802–823
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Publication Date
June 2013
DOI
10.1037/a0030859
ISSN
0096-1523