high-frequency word
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word
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uk/wɜːd/us/wɝːd/
a single unit of language that has meaning and can be spoken ...
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Onehigh-frequencyword, specify, was excluded from the analysis because a syllable is dropped with the addition of -ic in the derived word specific.
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Onehigh-frequencywordthat was used as a filler item (ambulance) elicited naming errors and was thus included in the scoring.
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More specifically, consider the empirical observation that the exceptions tend to be high-frequency words.
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The effect of written word frequency on identification times was also replicated, such that high-frequency words were identified with less acoustic input than low-frequency words.
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When reading high-frequency words, representations at the word level were readily retrieved; therefore, little activation was required at the component character level.
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The results revealed that the rate of deletion is higher among high-frequency words.
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Moreover, the difference in naming accuracies between regular and exception words was more pronounced for low-frequency words than for high-frequency words.
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This appears to be because of ceiling effects with high-frequency words.
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Nevertheless, children make use of whole word representation when they have one, as demonstrated by their performance on the high-frequency words.
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It seems that this asymptote state was observed in the results with high-frequency words in this study.
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