nonword
- noun
- /ˈnɒnˌwɜrd/
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no palabra
- Researchers often use nonwords to test language processing during psychological experiments.
- Nonword Repetition
- decoding nonwords
- nonword decoding
Examples
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We recorded the number of words or nonwords read accurately within 45 seconds.
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The use of nonwords in this experiment made it possible to investigate this question.
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Temporal processing measures were significantly related to word and nonword reading skills.
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We did not have a measure of the precise phonotactic frequency of these nonwords in Spanish.
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At middle school, we found that overall language was the best predictor of decoding both nonwords and real words.
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Children made a yes/no judgment about four nonwords per dinosaur, using their dominant hand.
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Half the presented nonwords had a high-frequency neighbor, and half had a low-frequency neighbor.
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RT and error data were collected for word-target conditions, and error data were collected for nonword-target conditions.
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In the linguistics study, participants were asked to identify whether a string of letters was a word or a nonword.
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The teacher created a list of nonwords to help students practice their phonetic skills.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
A nonword comes from non- 'not' and word, so it means 'not a word'. It is a noun for a group of sounds or letters that does not count as a real word, for example a made-up item in a language test.