A Preliminary Study of Subjective Frequency Estimates of Words Spoken in Cantonese
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13660894 |
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| Authors | Michael C W Yip (0000-0002-9790-334X, The Open University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 3_suppl |
| Pages | 1253-1258 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.3c.1253 |
| PMID | 11597084 |
| OpenAlex | W1991568407 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
A database is presented of the subjective frequency estimates for a set of 30 Chinese homophones. The estimates are based on analysis of responses from a simple listening task by 120 University students. On the listening task, they are asked to mention the first meaning thought of upon hearing a Chinese homophone by writing down the corresponding Chinese characters. There was correlation of .66 between the frequency of spoken and written words, suggesting distributional information about the lexical representations is generally independent of modality. These subjective frequency counts should be useful in the construction of material sets for research on word recognition using spoken Chinese (Cantonese)
Active listening · Homophone · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Modality (human–computer interaction · Natural language processing · Set (abstract data type · Speech recognition · Task (project management · Word (group theory · Word lists by frequency · Artificial Intelligence · Communication · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
| Highly cited | No |
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