Anchoring and contextual variation in the early stages of incidental word learning during reading

Lexical processing is influenced by a word’s semantic diversity, as estimated by corpus-derived metrics. Although this suggests that contextual variation shapes verbal learning and memory, it is not clear what semantic diversity represents and why this influences lexical processing. Word learning ex...

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Main Authors: Mak, MHC, Hsiao, Y, Nation, K
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021