sentence stimulus norming

This skill encodes expert methodological knowledge for norming linguistic stimuli before running psycholinguistic experiments. A competent programmer without linguistics training would likely construct stimuli based on intuition, failing to control for critical lexical variables (word frequency, length, neighborhood density), skipping cloze norming, using inappropriate rating scales, or under-powering the norming...

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Cloze probability is the proportion of people who complete a sentence fragment with a particular word (Taylor, 1953). It is the standard measure of a word's predictability in context and is a critical control variable in nearly all sentence processing research.