Voorbeelden van word association

• The first stage of data was collected using a written word association prompt distributed to the whole sample.

• Six categories of word association responses were devised in order to assess the development of the responses.

• New research using other, more extensive deep word knowledge measures (for example, a definition task or word association format) is needed.

• Word association knowledge and suffix knowledge were shown to correlate with each other and with total vocabulary size.

• Deese's (1964) finding of strong intersection coefficients for the word association distributions of antonymous adjectives has fueled arguments that antonyms are not as different in meaning as they seem.

• In the word association game, players in turn say whatever word comes into their mind first after hearing the previous word.

• Zajonc tested his theories by having people complete word association tasks alone and again in the presence of others.

• All responses on the word association test were given a classification of "paradigmatic," "syntagmatic," or "clang-other" response and assigned a score according to their classification.

• Characteristics of word association responses obtained from children in grades one through four.

• Given such limitations, it was decided to limit the current study to two types of word knowledge: grammatical knowledge and word association knowledge.

• As word association distributions supposedly represent conceptual similarity, it is assumed that the underlying representations for antonyms are conceptual in nature.

• Responses in the word association task can be understood as involving automatic processes.

• Changes in word association responses over the school year were studied by calculating difference scores.

• Each form of the word association test consisted of 48 words.

• The research presented in this paper examines developmental changes in the word association task and the influence reading seems to have on this process.