Is the Word Frequency Effect on Recognition Threshold a Function of Transitional Probability?
- 1 August 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 27 (1) , 143-145
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1970.27.1.143
Abstract
Frequently used 5- and 6-letter words incorporate letter sequences of higher digram and trigram frequency than rare words. This could account for some or all of the frequency of usage effect on word recognition threshold.Keywords
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