[Corpora-List] Nine questions regarding psycholinguistics -answer to Stephen

[Linda Bawcom]

Dear Stephen,
   
  First, let me apologize to everyone  for having typed one question twice; an oversight on my part, and thank you, Stephen,  for the URLS (btw-I didn't ask about N400 but it's appreciated).
   
  Second, you make a very good point regarding the use of the Internet for finding answers to questions. I did try this in the beginning (though not with all those listed in my e-mail). By way of explanation,  sometimes typing in the key words returned an incredible number of hits with literature where the term is mentioned but not defined nor used in context in a way I understood. So I will confess here to a certain impatience on my part as I did not have the time to read all of them in hopes that one would give me the kind of definition or explanation that I could understand.  Third, although I have  used Wikipedia, I prefer not to use it with regard to my research as I don’t  know who the information is coming from and thus  how accurate I might expect it to be,  especially if it is outside my area of knowledge. Incidentally,  using Wikipedia does not guarantee that the information will be understood by a novice in the field.
   
  Lastly, you are also correct  in that the specific terms that I queried have nothing to do with corpus or computational linguistics. They have everything to do, however,  with  recent research in psycholinguistics dealing with  frequency, collocations, and discourse level priming experiments; i.e. terms that are  corpus linguistic in nature. 
   
  Kindest regards,
  Linda


"Stefan Th. Gries" <stgries at gmail.com> wrote:   Dear Linda

You could have found answers to many of these questions (BTW:
questions 1 and 4 are identical) by simply googling the key words:
Googling

- "masked priming" gives you
as first hit;
- "N400" gives you the Wikipedia page at ;
- "principal component analysis?" gives you the Wikipedia page at
as the
first hit, and you can also look at
.

However, I fail to see why questions like these get sent to a corpus
linguistics list. Many of the terms such as priming, event-related
potentials, etc. are hardly corpus or computational linguistic in
nature.

Sincerely,
STG
-- 
Stefan Th. Gries
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University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries
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