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Frank Mollica, Shaorong Yan, Michael Tanenhaus, UC Davis

2018/3

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A context constructivist account of contextual diversity Page 1 A context constructivist account of contextual diversity Frank Mollica, Shaorong Yan & Michael Tanenhaus University of Rochester, BCS CUNY Sentence Processing @ UC Davis March 2018 Page 2 What is contextual diversity (CD)? ● The number of distinct contexts in which a word appears. Word Frequency (WF) Contextual Diversity (CD) the 1501908 8388 always 33418 7495 money 32679 5647 heart 12453 4582 Page 3 What is a context? Topics QUD Percepts . . . Page 4 Topics QUD Percepts Words Why is this interesting? . . . Page 5 How does CD influence behavior? ● Words that occur in many contexts are retrieved faster than words that occur in few contexts. – Lexical Decision Time (Adelman et al., 2006) – Naming Latency (Adelman et al., 2006) – Gaze duration on target words in sentential contexts (Plummer et al., 2014) Page 6 How does CD …