{"pk":27915,"title":"A context constructivist account of contextual diversity","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Word frequency effects have long served as an empirical andtheoretical test bed for theories of language processing. Anumber of recent studies have suggested that Contextual Di-versity (CD) is a better metric of retrieval processes than wordfrequency. Motivated by these findings, we sketch an activeaccount of lexical access during sentence processing: lan-guage users store statistics about contextualized lexical rep-resentations and use lexical-contextual relations to both con-struct context and predict words given the context. In linewith our account, we provide evidence from a frequency judg-ment experiment suggesting that words are not stored indepen-dently of their contexts of use. To further examine CD effectsin reading, we analyzed reading times in self-paced readingand eye-tracking corpora. We demonstrate that as context isconstructed, the role of CD in lexical retrieval is attenuated,reflecting a trade-off between context construction and contex-tualized word prediction.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Frequency; Contextual Diversity; Predictability"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5m48r4t9","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Shaorong","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yan","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Rochester","department":""},{"first_name":"Francis","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mollica","name_suffix":"","institution":"U of Rochester","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"K","last_name":"Tanenhaus","name_suffix":"","institution":"U of Rochester","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27915/galley/17553/download/"}]}