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Subtitle-Based Word Frequencies as the Best Estimate of Reading Behavior: 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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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3153823/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21833273 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00218 |
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author | Dimitropoulou, Maria Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni Avilés, Alberto Corral, José Carreiras, Manuel |
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description | 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 27 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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spelling | pubmed-31538232011-08-10 Subtitle-Based Word Frequencies as the Best Estimate of Reading Behavior: The Case of Greek Dimitropoulou, Maria Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni Avilés, Alberto Corral, José Carreiras, Manuel Front Psychol Psychology 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 27 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. Frontiers Research Foundation 2010-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3153823/ /pubmed/21833273 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00218 Text en Copyright © 2010 Dimitropoulou, Duñabeitia, Avilés, Corral and Carreiras. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article subject to an exclusive license agreement between the authors and the Frontiers Research Foundation, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Dimitropoulou, Maria Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni Avilés, Alberto Corral, José Carreiras, Manuel Subtitle-Based Word Frequencies as the Best Estimate of Reading Behavior: The Case of Greek |
title | Subtitle-Based Word Frequencies as the Best Estimate of Reading Behavior: The Case of Greek |
title_full | Subtitle-Based Word Frequencies as the Best Estimate of Reading Behavior: The Case of Greek |
title_fullStr | Subtitle-Based Word Frequencies as the Best Estimate of Reading Behavior: The Case of Greek |
title_full_unstemmed | Subtitle-Based Word Frequencies as the Best Estimate of Reading Behavior: The Case of Greek |
title_short | Subtitle-Based Word Frequencies as the Best Estimate of Reading Behavior: The Case of Greek |
title_sort | subtitle-based word frequencies as the best estimate of reading behavior: the case of greek |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3153823/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21833273 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00218 |
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