Quote: human lexical access time depends on word frequency and polysemy (number of word senses); the two are also correlated

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It has been know at least since Zipf … [J of General Psychology, 1945] … the more frequently a word is used the … [Jastrezembski, Cognitive Psychology, 1981] is that polysemy seems to predict lexical access times as … equivalent frequencies, polysemy is still a significant predictor …   Google-1   Google-2

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