Lété Bernard, Bonin Patrick
University of Lyon 2, Laboratoire EMC, Lyon, France.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2013;66(5):973-1000. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2012.723725. Epub 2012 Oct 2.
In a series of six experiments, the influence of frequency trajectory in visual word recognition was investigated. In Experiment 1, frequency trajectory was found to exert a strong and reliable influence on age of acquisition (AoA) ratings. In word reading (experiment 2), lexical decision (experiments 3 and 6), proper name decision (experiment 4), progressive demasking (experiment 5), and a multiple regression analysis of lexical decision times taken from the French Lexicon Project, the effect of frequency trajectory was not reliable. In contrast, in all the experiments and in the multiple regression analysis, cumulative frequency had a strong and reliable influence on word recognition times. The findings firmly establish that in alphabetic languages such as French, age-limited learning effects do not surface readily in word recognition. In contrast, the total exposure to words across the lifetime is a strong determinant of word recognition speed. The implications of the findings are discussed.
在一系列六项实验中，研究了频率轨迹对视觉单词识别的影响。在实验1中，发现频率轨迹对习得年龄（AoA）评分有强烈且可靠的影响。在单词阅读（实验2）、词汇判断（实验3和6）、专有名词判断（实验4）、渐进掩蔽（实验5）以及对取自法语词汇项目的词汇判断时间进行的多元回归分析中，频率轨迹的影响不可靠。相比之下，在所有实验和多元回归分析中，累积频率对单词识别时间有强烈且可靠的影响。这些发现有力地表明，在法语等字母语言中，年龄限制学习效应在单词识别中不容易显现。相反，一生中对单词的总接触量是单词识别速度的一个重要决定因素。讨论了这些发现的意义。
