Subtitle-based word frequencies as the best estimate of reading behaviour: the case of Greek
Previous evidence has shown that word frequencies calculated from corpora based on film and television subtitles can readily account for reading performance, since the language used in subtitles greatly approximates everyday language. The present study examines this issue in a society with increased...
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doaj-ee55e56348304b15b20c78cd3966b76b2020-11-25T00:03:24ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782010-12-01110.3389/fpsyg.2010.002181890Subtitle-based word frequencies as the best estimate of reading behaviour: the case of GreekMaria eDimitropoulou0Maria eDimitropoulou1Jon Andoni Duñabeitia2Alberto eAvilés3Alberto eAvilés4Jose Corral5Manuel Carreiras6Manuel Carreiras7Manuel Carreiras8Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language, BCBLUniversity of La LagunaBasque Center on Cognition Brain and Language, BCBLBasque Center on Cognition Brain and Language, BCBLUniversity of La LagunaBasque Center on Cognition Brain and Language, BCBLBasque Center on Cognition Brain and Language, BCBLIKERBASQUE. Basque foundation for ScienceUniversity of the Basque Country UPV/EHUPrevious evidence has shown that word frequencies calculated from corpora based on film and television subtitles can readily account for reading performance, since the language used in subtitles greatly approximates everyday language. The present study examines this issue in a society with increased exposure to subtitle reading. We compiled SUBTLEX-GR, a subtitled-based corpus consisting of more than 23 million Modern Greek words, and tested to what extent subtitle-based frequency estimates and those taken from a written corpus of Modern Greek account for the lexical decision performance of young Greek adults who are exposed to subtitle reading on a daily basis. Results showed that SUBTLEX-GR frequency estimates effectively accounted for participants’ reading performance in two different visual word recognition experiments. More importantly, different analyses showed that frequencies estimated from a subtitle corpus explained the obtained results significantly better than traditional frequencies derived from written corpora.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00218/fullword recognitioncultural variationsfrequency estimatessubtitles |
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Maria eDimitropoulou Maria eDimitropoulou Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Alberto eAvilés Alberto eAvilés Jose Corral Manuel Carreiras Manuel Carreiras Manuel Carreiras Subtitle-based word frequencies as the best estimate of reading behaviour: the case of Greek Frontiers in Psychology word recognition cultural variations frequency estimates subtitles |
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Maria eDimitropoulou Maria eDimitropoulou Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Alberto eAvilés Alberto eAvilés Jose Corral Manuel Carreiras Manuel Carreiras Manuel Carreiras |
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Subtitle-based word frequencies as the best estimate of reading behaviour: the case of Greek |
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Subtitle-based word frequencies as the best estimate of reading behaviour: the case of Greek |
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Subtitle-based word frequencies as the best estimate of reading behaviour: the case of Greek |
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Previous evidence has shown that word frequencies calculated from corpora based on film and television subtitles can readily account for reading performance, since the language used in subtitles greatly approximates everyday language. The present study examines this issue in a society with increased exposure to subtitle reading. We compiled SUBTLEX-GR, a subtitled-based corpus consisting of more than 23 million Modern Greek words, and tested to what extent subtitle-based frequency estimates and those taken from a written corpus of Modern Greek account for the lexical decision performance of young Greek adults who are exposed to subtitle reading on a daily basis. Results showed that SUBTLEX-GR frequency estimates effectively accounted for participants’ reading performance in two different visual word recognition experiments. More importantly, different analyses showed that frequencies estimated from a subtitle corpus explained the obtained results significantly better than traditional frequencies derived from written corpora. |
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word recognition cultural variations frequency estimates subtitles |
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