Resolving 20 years of inconsistent interactions between lexical familiarity and orthography, concreteness, and polysemy.

摘要: Numerous word recognition studies conducted over the past 2 decades are examined. These manipulated lexical familiarity by presenting words of high versus low printed frequency and most reported an interaction between one several second variables, namely, orthographic regularity, semantic concreteness, or polysemy. However, direction these interactions was inconsistent from study to study. Six new experiments clarify discordant results. The first two demonstrate that same not always equally familiar subjects. Instead, subjects' ratings "experimental familiarity" suggest many low-printed-frequency used in prior varied along this dimension. Four decision reexamine findings orthogonally manipulating familiarity, as assessed experiential ratings, with bigram frequency, number meanings. results only reliably affects latencies. This turn suggests previous due confounding a variable.