Evidence for frequency-based constituents in the mental lexicon: collocations involving the word

Sosa, Anna V.; MacFarlane, James

doi:10.1016/s0093-934x(02)00032-9

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“…This finding is in line with previous studies in the field of language production that have examined the impact of phrase frequency on measures of phonological reduction [26], and agrees with findings from the field of language comprehension [17,[20][21][22][23][24][25]. For example, as discussed in the Introduction, Arnon and Snider [17] found that recognition times of multi-word phrases were sensitive to the frequency with which the phrases appeared in the language.…”

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“…The results revealed that various eye-movement measures (first pass reading time, total reading time, and fixation count) were sensitive to the frequency with which a token phrase appeared in the language. In addition, a study by Sosa and MacFarlane [21] revealed that the speed with which listeners were able to detect the word 'of' was determined by the frequency of the phrase in which the word appeared. Finally, Bannard and Matthews [22] have shown that two and three-year old infants are better at repeating and producing high (e.g., 'sit in your chair') versus low (e.g., 'sit in your truck') frequency phrases (see [23][24][25] for additional results).…”

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Phrase frequency effects in language production

Janssen¹,

Barber²

2011

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A classic debate in the psychology of language concerns the question of the grain-size of the linguistic information that is stored in memory. One view is that only morphologically simple forms are stored (e.g., 'car', 'red'), and that more complex forms of language such as multi-word phrases (e.g., 'red car') are generated on-line from the simple forms. In two experiments we tested this view. In Experiment 1, participants produced noun+adjective and noun+noun phrases that were elicited by experimental displays consisting of colored line drawings and two superimposed line drawings. In Experiment 2, participants produced noun+adjective and determiner+noun+adjective utterances elicited by colored line drawings. In both experiments, naming latencies decreased with increasing frequency of the multi-word phrase, and were unaffected by the frequency of the object name in the utterance. These results suggest that the language system is sensitive to the distribution of linguistic information at grain-sizes beyond individual words.

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Phrase frequency effects in language production

Janssen¹,

Barber²

2011

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“…But for collocations in the highest frequency bin, there was a slowdown in reaction times. A similar result is reported in a separate study on the function word of (Sosa & MacFarlane, 2002): detection of of was slower in highly frequent collocations such as kind of (ones that appeared over 800 times per million). These findings are interpreted as evidence for competition between the part and the whole when the whole is frequent enough.…”

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More than words: Frequency effects for multi-word phrases

Arnon

Snider

2010

Journal of Memory and Language

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“…For example, Sosa and MacFarlane (2002) had participants monitor for of in two-word collocations (sort of) varying in frequency. They found that reaction times to of in high frequency phrases were significantly slower than in low frequency ones, indicating that frequent phrases were treated as unitary entities, which hindered access to their individual components.…”

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Adding more fuel to the fire: An eye-tracking study of idiom processing by native and non-native speakers

Siyanova‐Chanturia

Conklin

Schmitt

2011

Second Language Research

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Using eye-tracking, we investigate on-line processing of idioms in a biasing story context by native and non-native speakers of English. The stimuli are idioms used figuratively (at the end of the day -'eventually'), literally (at the end of the day -'in the evening'), and novel phrases (at the end of the war). Native speaker results indicate a processing advantage for idioms over novel phrases, as evidenced by fewer and shorter fixations. Further, no processing advantage is found for figurative idiom uses over literal ones in a full idiom analysis or in a recognition point analysis. Contrary to native speaker results, non-native findings suggest that L2 speakers process idioms at a similar speed to novel phrases. Further, figurative uses are processed more slowly than literal ones. Importantly, the recognition point analysis allows us to establish where non-natives slow down when processing the figurative meaning.

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Evidence for frequency-based constituents in the mental lexicon: collocations involving the word

Cited by 144 publications

References 14 publications

Phrase frequency effects in language production

Phrase frequency effects in language production

More than words: Frequency effects for multi-word phrases

Adding more fuel to the fire: An eye-tracking study of idiom processing by native and non-native speakers

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