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Siew, Cynthia S. Q.; Vitevitch, Michael S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Network science uses mathematical techniques to study complex systems such as the phonological lexicon (Vitevitch, 2008). The phonological network consists of a "giant component" (the largest connected component of the network) and "lexical islands" (smaller groups of words that are connected to each other, but not to the giant…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Experimental Psychology, Recall (Psychology), Word Recognition
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Chan, Kit Ying; Vitevitch, Michael S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Clustering coefficient--a measure derived from the new science of networks--refers to the proportion of phonological neighbors of a target word that are also neighbors of each other. Consider the words "bat", "hat", and "can", all of which are neighbors of the word "cat"; the words "bat" and…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Speech, Phonology, Language Processing