letter string
collocation in Englishmeaningsofletterandstring
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letter
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈlet.ər/us/ˈlet̬.ɚ/
used to refer to a standard size of paper in the US, 8.5 inches by ...
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string
noun
uk/strɪŋ/us/strɪŋ/
(a piece of) strong, thin rope made by twisting very thin threads together, used for fastening and ...
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(Definition ofletterandstringfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofletter string
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The reaction time was measured from theletterstringonset to the pressing of the reaction time key.
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They computed "lexicality effect" (word - pseudoword efficiency) and "orthography effect" (pseudoword -letterstringefficiency).
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The letter change could occur at different positions within theletterstring.
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Successful word reading is a match between the inputletterstringand a word representation.
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In an alphabetic writing system, perceptual processing of aletterstringresults in the activation of the grapheme units (individual and multiple letters) of words.
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In both representational and nonrepresentational models, aletterstringhas usually been treated like any other stimulus.
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On the lexical decision trials they were presented with a singleletterstringfor lexical decision.
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Readers may also adopt mappings at different grain-sizes in a visual search task as a function of the type ofletterstringpresented.
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In this thought experiment, a person inside a room follows a rule book and performs calculations on input numbers to obtain an output of aletterstring.
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As a result, they might fail to perceive the letter strings or to recognize aletterstringas a word within the time window allowed for the prime word.
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For instance, in lexical decision the inputletterstringactivates orthographic, semantic and phonological codes, all of which could allow a discrimination of word and nonword input.
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An unpronounceableletterstringis unlikely to activate many words and those words are unlikely to contain the same letters in the same positions as the pseudoword.
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The presence of an external cue (the colour of the background on which theletterstringis presented) informed participants of the required language for decision.
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However, before the selection of one precise saccade target, a salient, orthographically illegal cluster at the beginning of theletterstringattracted attention automatically, independent of the intended landing position.
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Half of the time a word was presented for 14.3 ms, whereas during the other half, a randomletterstringof the same length was presented.
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Numerous studies of monolingual word recognition have shown that the lexical decision task is not very sensitive to con-ict between alternate pronunciations of aletterstring.
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Subjects were then asked to determine both as accurately and as quickly as possible, whether the secondletterstringof each pair was or was not a word.
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Instead, participants develop their own rules based on small sections of eachletterstring.
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