Word predictability effects are linear, not logarithmic: Implications for probabilistic models of sentence comprehension

T Brothers, GR Kuperberg - Journal of Memory and Language, 2021 - Elsevier
… account of lexical probability effects during reading, we believe the empirical predictions
of … Our findings highlight the limitations of corpus-based analyses in uncontrolled “naturalistic” …

Limitations of size and levels tests of written receptive vocabulary knowledge

T Stoeckel, S McLean, P Nation - … in Second Language Acquisition, 2021 - cambridge.org
vocabulary growth in much of this research were made using instruments that have the very
limitations … Due to space limitations, some other tests of vocabulary for reading, such as the …

Large-scale evidence for logarithmic effects of word predictability on reading time

C Shain, C Meister, T Pimentel… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
… representations from the mental lexicon, and integrating those … out this prediction by supporting
a linear increase in reading … In cases where text length exceeded the maximum allowed …

Single‐stage prediction models do not explain the magnitude of syntactic disambiguation difficulty

M Van Schijndel, T Linzen - Cognitive science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… With important limitations that we discuss next, these results … ' predictions, we next examined
the predicted reading time for … region, we grouped the lexical predictions of the model by …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring lexical quality: The role of spelling ability

S Andrews, A Veldre, IE Clarke - Behavior Research Methods, 2020 - Springer
… – during reading of short passages, but the lexical factor was a stronger predictor of these
reading … the implications of varying the time limits allowed for the reading comprehension and …

Predicting L2 reading proficiency with modalities of vocabulary knowledge: A bootstrapping approach

S McLean, J Stewart, AO Batty - Language Testing, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
… Their Pearson’s correlation between vocabulary scores and readingvocabulary predicted
reading proficiency with vocabulary scores explaining 83.7% of the variance in reading

A hierarchy of linguistic predictions during natural language comprehension

M Heilbron, K Armeni, JM Schoffelen… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
… approach to process texts longer than the maximum context window of 1,024 tokens. For …
an integrated regression model with lexical predictions, and feature-specific predictions, at both …

Frequency effects in reading are powerful–But is contextual diversity the more important variable?

CL Caldwell‐Harris - Language and Linguistics Compass, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… was a better predictor of lexical decision and naming … another way to understand the
limitations of frequency rep . … you read once each day for three days, compared to reading the …

Individual differences in learning the regularities between orthography, phonology and semantics predict early reading skills

N Siegelman, JG Rueckl, LM Steacy, SJ Frost… - Journal of memory and …, 2020 - Elsevier
… More concretely, in the experiments reported below we assessed how lexical and sub-lexical
statistical regularities impact the word naming behavior of individual children. We then …

Assessing the validity of lexical diversity indices using direct judgements

K Kyle, SA Crossley, S Jarvis - Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… automated measures of lexical diversity), limiting access to … scored for lexical diversity, and
they were asked to read these … the best predictor of holistic judgements of lexical diversity in …