Name
Abstract | ||
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Previous works in cognitive science have reported that human cognition of words includes two preferences: a locational preference, by which word prefixes are remembered better than suffixes, and suffixes better than infixes; and a consonantal preference, by which consonants are remembered better than vowels. In this paper, the ambiguity with respect to prefix/infix/suffix and consonant/vowel is compared in terms of conditional entropy, by using large-scale data from English. The results show that consonants indeed have less ambiguity than vowels, and also, that the locational preference holds if word middles are considered as wholes. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2012 | 10.1080/09296174.2012.638797 | JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
cognitive science,human cognition,conditional entropy | Consonant,Suffix,Computer science,Prefix,Infix,Vowel,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Conditional entropy,Cognition,Linguistics,Ambiguity | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
19.0 | 1 | 0929-6174 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.45 | 1 |
Authors | ||
1 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii | 1 | 261 | 36.69 |