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SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF WORD OCCURRENCE AS ITS PSYCHOLINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTIC

SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF WORD OCCURRENCE AS ITS PSYCHOLINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTIC


Author:  Zolotova N.O.

Affiliation:  Tver State University

Abstract:  Frequency, traditionally understood as lexicostatistic term, used for notation of word occurrence in the text is compared with psycholinguistic interpretation of subjective evaluation of frequency ascribed to a «familiar» word by an ordinary language speaker, the word being psychologically important to his cognitive activity.

Keywords:  frequency, frequency word book, degree of familiarity of the word, subjective evaluation of word occurrence, reproducibility of the word

References

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Фрумкина Р.М. Психолингвистика: учеб. для студ. высш. учеб. завед. М.: Издательский центр «Академия», 2001.
Toglia M.P., Battig W.F. Handbook of Semantic Word Norms. Hilsdale; New Jersey: Erlbaum Association, 1978.

Pages:  541-543

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