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%A Spence, Donald P. & Owens, Kimberly C.
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%T Lexical co-occurrence and association strength
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%B Journal of Psycholinguistic Research  
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%I Springer Netherlands
%V 19
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%P 317-330
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%2 SpringerLink - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research , Volume 19, Number 5
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%F spence1990lexical
%K association, nlp, cooccurrence, toread
%X The 1-million-word Brown corpus was searched for co-occurrences of semantically related pairs of concrete nouns appearing within an arbitrary window of 250 characters. Related pairs of nouns (OCEAN-WATER) co-occur significantly more often than matched, unrelated pairs (OCEAN-HAND), and this difference remained significant within blocks of text up to 1000 characters in length. Frequency of co-occurrence, corrected for chance, is significantly correlated with association strength. Lexical distance between co-occurring members of a given pair is inversely correlated with association strength. Significantly more co-occurrences were found, per unit text, in the fictional sections of the corpus.
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%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01074363
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