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Contrasting effects of age of acquisition and word frequency on auditory and visual lexical decision
J E Turner1, T Valentine, A W Ellis
1University of Reading, England. j.e.turner@reading.ac.uk
Memory & Cognition
|December 16, 1998
Abstract:
In four experiments, we examined the effects of frequency and age of acquisition on auditory and visual lexical decision. Word frequency affected visual, but not auditory, lexical decision speed (Experiments 1 and 3). Age of acquisition affected lexical decision speed in both modalities (Experiments 2 and 4). We suggest that previous reports of effects of frequency on auditory lexical decision may be due to a confounding of frequency with age of acquisition, and we discuss the implications of these findings for theories of auditory and visual word recognition.