"3119","A distributional model of semantic context effects in lexical processinga","One of the most robust findings of experimental psycholinguistics is that the context in which a word is presented influences the effort involved in processing that word. We present a novel model of contextual facilitation based on word co-occurrence prob ability distributions, and empirically validate the model through simulation of three representative types of context manipulation: single word priming, multiple-priming and contextual constraint. In our simulations the effects of semantic context are mod eled using general-purpose techniques and representations from multivariate statistics, augmented with simple assumptions reflecting the inherently incremental nature of speech understanding. The contribution of our study is to show that special-purpose m echanisms are not necessary in order to capture the general pattern of the experimental results, and that a range of semantic context effects can be subsumed under the same principled account.›o","http://cogprints.org/3119/","McDonald, Scott and Brew, Chris","UNSPECIFIED","       <span class=\"person_name\">McDonald, Scott</span> and <span class=\"person_name\">Brew, Chris</span>     (2002)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/3119/\"><em>A distributional model of semantic context effects in lexical processinga.</em></a>       [Preprint]           ","","2002"