CONTEXTUAL PREDICTABILITY AND FREQUENCY FACTORS

Abstract

Cloze scores were obtained from 320 Ss for two written Italian passages totaling 616 words in such a way that each word was guessed by 32 Ss. Each word was classified into one of 12 grammatical classes. As has been found for English, content words are less predictable than function words if guessing the specific missing item is required. No such difference exists when only correct form class has to be predicted. Type-token ratio for each class appears to be correlated with specific item predictability, whereas proportion of occurrences of each form class in the language is correlated with form class predictability. Both correlations suggest that frequency properties may be an important factor even in complex language behavior.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0651095

Entities

People

  • Domenico Parisi
  • Lawrence M. Stolurow
  • Ulderico Cappelli

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Coefficients
  • Contracts
  • Ford-Class
  • Frequency
  • Instructions
  • Language
  • Learning
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Psychology
  • Security
  • Students
  • Universities
  • Word Recognition

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.