Investigating the Word Frequency Effect (WFE) after controlling Age-of-Acquisition (AoA)

Faculty Sponsor: Barbara J. Juhasz Abstract: The current study is the first stage of a multi-study project that examines the word frequency effect (WFE) after controlling for Age-of-Acquisition (AoA). WFE and AoA are two well-documented predictors of word recognition latencies. We extracted data from the English Lexical Project (ELP), a database containing behavioral and descriptive … Read more