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    "pk": 27817,
    "title": "Word Frequency Can Affect What You Choose to Say",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Though communicative goals clearly drive word choice in\nlanguage production, online demands suggest that accessibility\nmight play a role, too. If the benefits of accessibility are\nimportant enough to communication, more accessible words\n(high-frequency words) might be chosen over more accurate,\nless accessible ones. We used a novel artificial language\nlearning paradigm to test whether high-frequency words are\npreferred over low-frequency words at a cost of meaning\naccuracy. Participants learned eight words which corresponded\nto precise angles on a compass. On test trials, participants\nviewed angles lying in-between two trained angles and were\nasked to produce a word for the angle. Across two experiments,\nwe showed that participants extended their use of high-\nfrequency words to more distal angles compared to low-\nfrequency words. In cases of competition between high- and\nlow-frequency words, the former tended to win out even when\nless accurate, suggesting that accessibility can compromise\nsome accuracy.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Lexical access"
        },
        {
            "word": "accessibility"
        },
        {
            "word": "Word frequency"
        },
        {
            "word": "Artificial language"
        },
        {
            "word": "Lexical bias"
        },
        {
            "word": "Language Production"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hj8w9gz",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Mark",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Koranda",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Wisconson - Madison",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Martin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zettersten",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Wisconson - Madison",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Maryellen",
            "middle_name": "C",
            "last_name": "MacDonald",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Wisconson - Madison",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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}