Abstract
An experiment addressed whether lexical decision response latency and error rate are influenced by orthographic neighborhood structure. It was found that words with several higher-frequency neighbors were responded to more slowly and less accurately than words with fewer higher-frequency neighbors, even though the stimulus words were matched oh number of neighbors, word frequency, neighborhood frequency, number of higher-frequency neighbors, word length, and number of syllables. The results indicate that frequency is a relative effect dependent on the structure of the neighborhood. A word at the “bottom” of its neighborhood will be affected by the lexical representations of its higher-frequency neighbors. However, a word at the “top” of its neighborhood does not appear to be affected by the lexical representations of its neighbors.
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