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Procura-PALavras (P-PAL): A web-based interface for a new european portuguese l...
Soares, Ana Paula; Iriarte, Álvaro; Almeida, José João; Simões, Alberto; Costa, Ana; Machado, João; França, Patrícia; Comesaña, MontserratIn this article, we present Procura-PALavras (P-PAL), a Web-based interface for a new European Portuguese (EP) lexical database. Based on a contemporary printed corpus of over 227 million words, P-PAL provides a broad range of word attributes and statistics, including several measures of word frequency (e.g., raw counts, per-million word frequency, logarithmic Zipf scale), morpho-syntactic information (e.g., pa...
Psycholinguistic variables in visual word recognition and pronunciation of Euro...
Soares, Ana Paula; Lages, Alexandrina; Silva, Ana; Comesaña, Montserrat; Sousa, Inês; Pinheiro, Ana P.; Perea, ManuelAn increasing number of psycholinguistic studies have adopted a megastudy approach to explore the role that different variables play in the speed and/or accuracy with which words are recognised and/or pronounced in different languages. However, despite evidence for deep and shallow orthographies, little is known about the role that several orthographic, phonological and semantic variables play in visual word re...
Procura-PALavras (P-PAL): A Web-based interface for a new European Portuguese l...
Soares, Ana Paula; Iriarte Sanromán, Álvaro; Almeida, J. J.; Simões, Alberto; Costa, Ana; Machado, Joo; Franca, Patricia; Comesaña, MontserratIn this article, we present Procura-PALavras (P-PAL), a Web-based interface for a new European Portuguese (EP) lexical database. Based on a contemporary printed corpus of over 227 million words, P-PAL provides a broad range of word attributes and statistics, including several measures of word frequency (e.g., raw counts, per-million word frequency, logarithmic Zipf scale), morpho-syntactic information (e.g., pa...
The ERP signature of the contextual diversity effect in visual word recognition
Vergara-Martínez, Marta; Comesaña, Montserrat; Perea, ManuelBehavioral experiments have revealed that words appearing in many different contexts are responded to faster than words that appear in few contexts. Although this contextual diversity (CD) effect has been found to be stronger than the word-frequency (WF) effect, it is a matter of debate whether the facilitative effects of CD and WF reflect the same underlying mechanisms. The analysis of the electrophysiological...
I saw this somewhere else: the Spanish Ambiguous Words (SAW) database
Fraga, Isabel; Padrón, Isabel; Perea, Manuel; Comesaña, MontserratThe present paper describes the Spanish Ambiguous Words (SAW) database, which comprises 210 words (133 polysemous and 77 homographs). Three-hundred and fifteen Spanish university students took part in the study on which SAW is based. First, subjective word meanings and senses were collected by means of a meaning retrieval task. Two judges then assigned participants’ responses to different categories of meaning ...
On the nature of consonant-vowel differences in letter position coding: evidenc...
Comesaña, Montserrat; Soares, Ana Paula; Marcet, Ana; Perea, ManuelIn skilled adult readers, transposed-letter effects (jugde-JUDGE) are greater for consonant than for vowel transpositions. These differences are often attributed to phonological rather than orthographic processing. To examine this issue, we employed a scenario in which phonological involvement varies as a function of reading experience: a masked priming lexical decision task with 50-ms primes in adult and devel...
Is VIRTU4L Larger Than VIR7UAL?: automatic processing of number quantity and le...
García-Orza, Javier; Comesaña, Montserrat; Piñeiro, Ana; Soares, Ana Paula; Perea, ManuelRecent research has shown that leet words (i.e., words in which some of the letters are replaced by visually similar digits; e.g., VIRTU4L) can be processed as their base words without much cost. However, it remains unclear whether the digits inserted in leet words are simply processed as letters or whether they are simultaneously processed as numbers (i.e., in terms of access to their quantity representation)....
On the advantages of word-frequency and contextual diversity measures extracted...
Soares, Ana Paula; Machado, João F.; Costa, Ana; Iriarte Sanromán, Álvaro; Simões, Alberto; Almeida, J. J.; Comesaña, Montserrat; Perea, ManuelAccepted manuscript. Epub ahead of print, 29 Sep. 2014.; We examined the potential advantage of the lexical databases using subtitles and present SUBTLEX-PT, a new lexical database for 132,710 Portuguese words obtained from a 78 million corpus based on film and television series subtitles, offering word-frequency and contextual diversity measures. Additionally we validated SUBTLEX-PT with a lexical decision stu...
Tracking the emergence of the consonant bias in visual-word recognition: eviden...
Soares, Ana Paula; Perea, Manuel; Comesaña, MontserratRecent research with skilled adult readers has consistently revealed an advantage of consonants over vowels in visual-word recognition (i.e., the so-called "consonant bias"). Nevertheless, little is known about how early in development the consonant bias emerges. This work aims to address this issue by studying the relative contribution of consonants and vowels at the early stages of visual-word recognition in ...
Contextual diversity is a main determinant of word identification times in youn...
Perea, Manuel; Soares, Ana Paula; Comesaña, MontserratRecent research with college-aged skilled readers by Adelman and colleagues revealed that contextual diversity (i.e., the number of contexts in which a word appears) is a more critical determinant of visual word recognition than mere repeated exposure (i.e., word frequency) (Psychological Science, 2006, Vol. 17, pp. 814-823). Given that contextual diversity has been claimed to be a relevant factor to word acqui...