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- Title
A normative study of acronyms and acronym naming.
- Authors
Izura, Cristina; Playfoot, David
- Abstract
Acronyms are an idiosyncratic part of our everyday vocabulary. Research in word processing has used acronyms as a tool to answer fundamental questions such as the nature of the word superiority effect (WSE) or which is the best way to account for word-reading processes. In this study, acronym naming was assessed by looking at the influence that a number of variables known to affect mainstream word processing has had in acronym naming. The nature of the effect of these factors on acronym naming was examined using a multilevel regression analysis. First, 146 acronyms were described in terms of their age of acquisition, bigram and trigram frequencies, imageability, number of orthographic neighbors, frequency, orthographic and phonological length, print-to-pronunciation patterns, and voicing characteristics. Naming times were influenced by lexical and sublexical factors, indicating that acronym naming is a complex process affected by more variables than those previously considered.
- Subjects
ACRONYMS; CIPHERS; ELECTRONIC data processing; REGRESSION analysis
- Publication
Behavior Research Methods, 2012, Vol 44, Issue 3, p862
- ISSN
1554-351X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13428-011-0175-8