Publications

Publication details [#64957]

Playfoot, David, Teodor Balint, Vibhuti Pandya, Averil Parkes, Mollie Peters and Samantha Richards. 2018. Are Word Association Responses Really the First Words that Come to Mind? Applied Linguistics 39 (5) : 607–624.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

association | lexicon | participant | response | word

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

The word association paradigm proposes partakers a cue word and demands them to reply with the first associated word that comes to mind. Findings of this study state that word association replies probably reflect the first word that partakers activate in their vocabulary.