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Examplesofhigh-frequency word
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.Onehigh-frequencyword, specify, was excluded from the analysis because a syllable is dropped with the addition of -ic in the derived word specific.From theCambridge English CorpusOnehigh-frequencywordthat was used as a filler item (ambulance) elicited naming errors and was thus included in the scoring.From theCambridge English CorpusMore specifically, consider the empirical observation that the exceptions tend to be high-frequency words.From theCambridge English CorpusThe effect of written word frequency on identification times was also replicated, such that high-frequency words were identified with less acoustic input than low-frequency words.From theCambridge English CorpusWhen reading high-frequency words, representations at the word level were readily retrieved; therefore, little activation was required at the component character level.From theCambridge English CorpusThe results revealed that the rate of deletion is higher among high-frequency words.From theCambridge English CorpusMoreover, the difference in naming accuracies between regular and exception words was more pronounced for low-frequency words than for high-frequency words.From theCambridge English CorpusThis appears to be because of ceiling effects with high-frequency words.From theCambridge English CorpusNevertheless, children make use of whole word representation when they have one, as demonstrated by their performance on the high-frequency words.From theCambridge English CorpusIt seems that this asymptote state was observed in the results with high-frequency words in this study.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.Want to learn more?Go to the definition ofwordSee other collocations withword#https://dictionary.cambridge.org/example/english/high-frequency-word##
