Abstract
Female students read aloud single words under three conditions. The words were in lists of either common words (AA), rare words (1/million), or in a mixed list of common and rare words. Naming was faster for common than for rare words. Time to name both common and rare words was about 70 msec faster in the homogeneous lists than in the mixed list, suggesting that knowledge of word frequency in advance speeds processing by a constant amount. Also, naming took longer for two-syllable than for one-syllable words. The results are discussed in relation to Oldfield’s two-stage model of object naming, which receives only partial support. It is suggested that speed of search through the putative “word store” may hitherto have been greatly underestimated.
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