low-frequency word
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word
noun
uk/wɜːd/us/wɝːd/
a single unit of language that has meaning and can be spoken ...
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Note that this dual-route account does not deny a role for lexical phonology in the naming of low-frequency words.
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According to this hypothesis, therefore, the effects of phonological coding should be observed only in recognizing unfamiliar or low-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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The words were categorized into high-frequency and low-frequency words according to the frequencies of occurrences of words in each grade.
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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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In the text, 20 relatively low-frequency words were annotated with text, sound, and pictures.
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There was a general tendency to read high-frequency words better than low-frequency words, but in most cases this did not reach any level of significance.
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That is, whereas the improvement in word-recognition speed with low-frequency words was associated with automatization, that with high-frequency words was associated with simple speedup.
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Accordingly, more character level access errors would result for reading highfrequency words than low-frequency words.
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Consequently, component character frequency effect was found only in reading low-frequency words.
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