Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 2023 · 10 citations · 0 references
Language StudiesLinguisticsNatural Language ProcessingPsycholinguisticsSemanticsLanguage ModelingLexical SemanticsSemantic ProcessingWord Frequency EffectsLow-frequency Words
), we found a lag effect, with shorter fixations on words following overlapping targets, suggesting easier integration of those meanings. These experiments provide evidence that words with overlapping forms and meanings bolster representations of low-frequency words, which supports approaches to natural language processing that incorporate both formal and distributional information and which revises assumptions about how an optimal language will evolve. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).