Article published in:
Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part I)Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben and Chris Westbury
[The Mental Lexicon 5:3] 2010
► pp. 281–299
Measures of phonological typicality
Robust coherence and psychological validity
Padraic Monaghan | Lancaster University, UK
Morten H. Christiansen | Cornell University, USA
Thomas A. Farmer | Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, University of Rochester, USA
Stanka A. Fitneva | Queens University, Canada
Phonological Typicality (PT) is a measure of the extent to which a word’s phonology is typical of other words in the lexical category to which it belongs. There is a general coherence among words from the same category in terms of speech sounds, and we have found that words that are phonologically typical of their category tend to be processed more quickly and accurately than words that are less typical. In this paper we describe in greater detail the operationalisation of measures of a word’s PT, and report validations of different parameterisations of the measure. For each variant of PT, we report the extent to which it reflects the coherence of the lexical categories of words in terms of their sound, as well as the extent to which the measure predicts naming and lexical decision response times from a database of monosyllabic word processing. We show that PT is robust to parameter variation, but that measures based on PT of uninflected words (lemmas) best predict response time data for naming and lexical decision of single words.
Published online: 17 February 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.5.3.02mon
https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.5.3.02mon
Cited by
Cited by 6 other publications
de Zubicaray, Greig I., Katie L. McMahon & Joanne Arciuli
Ghaffarvand Mokari, Payam, Adamantios Gafos & Daniel Williams
Jee, Hana, Monica Tamariz & Richard Shillcock
Monaghan, Padraic, Richard C. Shillcock, Morten H. Christiansen & Simon Kirby
Sharpe, Victoria & Alec Marantz
van den Bos, Esther, Morten H. Christiansen & Jennifer B. Misyak
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 10 april 2022. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.