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Word Predictability

Word Predictability is a psycholinguistic construct that denotes the degree to which a word can be anticipated in a given linguistic context based on prior information, distinguishing it from related frequency-based measures by capturing contextual constraint rather than mere statistical recurrence.

178

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405

Authors

201

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Publications per year

2017–2026

93

Variants

Lexical Predictability

Parents

Publications

178

Development of a test of speech intelligibility in noise using sentence materials with controlled word predictability

D. N. Kalikow, Lois L. Elliott · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1977 · 1.1K citations

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The effect of word predictability on reading time is logarithmic

Nathaniel J. Smith, Roger Lévy · Cognition · 2013 · 749 citations · Full text

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Predictability effects on durations of content and function words in conversational English

Alan Bell, Jason Brenier, Michelle Gregory et al. · Journal of Memory and Language · 2008 · 683 citations

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The effect of word frequency, word predictability, and font difficulty on the eye movements of young and older readers.

Keith Rayner, Erik D. Reichle, Michael J. Stroud et al. · Psychology and Aging · 2006 · 371 citations

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Implicit statistical learning in language processing: Word predictability is the key☆

Christopher M. Conway, Althea Bauernschmidt, Sean S. Huang et al. · Cognition · 2009 · 339 citations

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Authors

405

  1. RL
    Roger Lévy

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    9 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. KB
    Kevin B. Paterson

    University of Leicester, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 199 citations

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  3. CS
    Cory Shain

    The Ohio State University, United States

    6 publications · 306 citations

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  4. KD
    Kara D. Federmeier

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    6 publications · 346 citations

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  5. KR
    Keith Rayner

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    6 publications · 1.2K citations

    6

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Institutions

201

  1. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    11 h-index

    24 publications

    2K citations

  2. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    11 h-index

    23 publications

    3K citations

  3. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    11 h-index

    17 publications

    948 citations

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    10 h-index

    19 publications

    1.5K citations

  5. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    9 h-index

    13 publications

    733 citations

  6. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    22 publications

    2.9K citations

  7. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    9 h-index

    15 publications

    941 citations

  8. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    24 publications

    3.4K citations

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Venues

  1. Language Cognition and Neuroscience

    12 publications · 465 citations

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  2. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

    QJEP · 9 publications · 371 citations

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  3. Cognition

    7 publications · 1.7K citations

    7

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  4. Frontiers in Psychology

    7 publications · 251 citations

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