{"pk":28868,"title":"Rapid Semantic Integration of Novel Words Following Exposure to Distributional\nRegularities","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Our knowledge of words consists of a lexico-semantic\nnetwork in which different words and their meanings\nare connected by relations, such as similarity in\nmeaning. This research investigated the integration of\nnew words into lexico-semantic networks.\nSpecifically, we investigated whether new words can\nrapidly become linked with familiar words given\nexposure to distributional regularities that are\nubiquitous in real-world language input, in which\nfamiliar and new words either: (1) directly co-occur in\nsentences, or (2) never co-occur, but instead share\neach other’s patterns of co-occurrence with another\nword. We observed that, immediately after sentence\nreading, familiar words came to be primed not only by\nnew words with which they co-occurred in sentences,\nbut also by new words with which they shared co-\noccurrence. This finding represents a novel\ndemonstration that new words can be rapidly\nintegrated into lexico-semantic networks from\nexposure to distributional regularities.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"word learning; semantic priming;\ndistributional semantics; semantic integration"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/84h5s2vx","frozenauthors":[],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28868/galley/18739/download/"}]}