@article{spence1990lexical,
  abstract = {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.},
  affiliation = {Department of Psychiatry Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 08854 Piscataway New Jersey},
  author = {Spence, Donald P. and Owens, Kimberly C.},
  doi = {10.1007/BF01074363},
  interhash = {75d5913fcca51ebf5fd7e281c36a69e9},
  intrahash = {3e0a291d4193c824616c6f73ad0a4101},
  issn = {0090-6905},
  issue = {5},
  journal = {Journal of Psycholinguistic Research  },
  keyword = {Behavioral Science},
  pages = {317-330},
  publisher = {Springer Netherlands},
  title = {Lexical co-occurrence and association strength},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01074363},
  volume = 19,
  year = 1990
}