Context availability and lexical decisions for abstract and concrete words

By P. Schwanenflugel, K. K. Harnishfeger, R. W. Stowe. 1988

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Semantic diversity: A measure of semantic ambiguity based on variability in the contextual usage of words (2012, background): “Schwanenflugel and colleagues made the argument that concrete words are generally processed more efficiently than abstract words because they have greater context availability—that is, it is easier to link them to specific contexts (Schwanenflugel & Shoben, 1983; Schwanenflugel et al., 1988).”
Getting real about semantic illusions: rethinking the functional role of the P600 in language comprehension. (2012, background): “A by-product of such amechanism is that the language processing system is able to anticipate or predict upcoming words (see Federmeier and Kutas, 1999; Schwanenflugel and Shoben, 1983, 1985; Schwanenflugel et al., 1988; van Berkum, 2009).”
Gestures Enhance Foreign Language Learning (2012, methodology): “Both proposals (i.e. the Dual Coding Theory and the Context Availability Model) put forward the idea that the cognitive advantage is grounded in richer representation of the word´s semantics.”
Concreteness ratings for 40 thousand generally known English word lemmas (2013, background): “Schwanenflugel, Harnishfeger, and Stowe (1988) presented an alternative context availability theory, according to which concrete words are easier to process because they are related to strongly supporting memory contexts, whereas abstract words are not, as can be demonstrated by asking people how…”
Number of meanings and concreteness: Consequences of ambiguity within and across languages (2007, methodology): “According to context availability theory (eg, Kieras, 1978 ; Schwanenflugel, Harnishfeger, & Stowe, 1988 ; Schwanenflugel & Shoben, 1983 ), it is easier to generate a context for concrete than for abstract words.”
The development of lexical fluency in a second language (2002, background): “Context availability is the ease with which a context can be generated for a word and is typically highly correlated with concreteness (e.g., Schwanenflugel et al., 1988).”
Age-of-acquisition effects in word and picture identification. (2005, background): “Likewise, Schwanenflugel , Harnishfeger, and Stowe (1988) also failed to find a significant effect of AoA on LDT when word frequency, length, and context availability were partialed out.”
Making Sense of Semantic Ambiguity: Semantic Competition in Lexical Access (2002, background): “This is related to the Schwanenflugel, Harnishfeger , and Stowe (1988) context availability account of the concreteness effect.”