The effect of family size on processing Serbian nouns

• Main Authors: Đerić Snežana, Kostić Aleksandar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Drustvo Psihologa Srbije 2007-01-01
• Series: Psihologija
• Subjects: derivational morphology; family size; mental lexicon
• Online Access: http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0048-5705/2007/0048-57050701133D.pdf

In two lexical decision experiments the effect of family size was investigated for Serbian nouns. In the first experiment there were 15 nouns of low and 15 nouns of high family size, while in the second experiment 50 nouns that cover the whole range of family size spectrum were presented. In both experiments family size accounts for significant proportion of explained variance of response latencies. In multiple regression the effect of family size is significant over and above word frequency and word length, while frequency and word length do not account for significant proportion of variance over and above family size.