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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics

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  • Lexicon Projects (LPs) are vital resources for understanding visual word recognition across languages.
  • Previous LPs have focused on Indo-European languages, leaving Semitic languages underrepresented.
  • The Hebrew Lexicon Project (HeLP) addresses this gap by providing a large-scale behavioral dataset for Hebrew.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce the first Lexicon Project (LP) for a Semitic language, the Hebrew Lexicon Project (HeLP).
  • To investigate the influence of general and Hebrew-specific linguistic features on visual word recognition.
  • To compare findings with existing cross-linguistic data on visual word recognition.

Main Methods:

  • Assembled lexical decision (LD) responses for 10,000 Hebrew words and nonwords.
  • Collected naming responses for 5,000 Hebrew words.
  • Analyzed the impact of predictors like lexicality, frequency, word length, neighborhood density, Semitic structure, clitics, and phonological entropy.

Main Results:

  • Confirmed typical effects of lexicality and frequency, but observed complex impacts of word length and neighborhood density.
  • Identified better recognition for words with Semitic structure and performance decline for words with clitics.
  • Found significant inhibitory effects of phonological ambiguity in both LD and naming tasks.

Conclusions:

  • HeLP data highlights unique aspects of visual word recognition in Hebrew, a Semitic language.
  • Findings contribute to cross-linguistic models of reading, emphasizing language-specific structural influences.
  • The study underscores the importance of including diverse language families in lexicon research.