How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate

M Brysbaert - Journal of memory and language, 2019 - Elsevier
Based on the analysis of 190 studies (18,573 participants), we estimate that the average
silent reading rate for adults in English is 238 words per minute (wpm) for non-fiction and …

Disentangling contextual diversity: Communicative need as a lexical organizer.

BT Johns - Psychological Review, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Contextual diversity (CD; Adelman, Brown, & Quesada, 2006) modifies word
frequency by ignoring word repetition in context. It has been repeatedly found that a CD …

Cognitive causes of 'like me'race and gender biases in human language production

J Brough, LT Harris, SH Wu, HP Branigan… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Natural language contains and communicates social biases, often reflecting attitudes,
prejudices and stereotypes. Here we provide evidence for a novel psychological pathway for …

Estimating the prevalence and diversity of words in written language

BT Johns, M Dye, MN Jones - Quarterly Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Recently, a new crowd-sourced language metric has been introduced, entitled word
prevalence, which estimates the proportion of the population that knows a given word. This …

Creating a Chinese gender lexicon for detecting gendered wording in job advertisements

T Jiang, Y Li, S Fu, Y Chen - Information Processing & Management, 2023 - Elsevier
It is widely assumed that gendered wording in job advertisements can be a source of
unconscious gender bias that contributes to occupational gender segregation, and gender …

Insights from the study of Arabic reading

EW Hermena, ED Reichle - Language and Linguistics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Current reading models were largely designed to explain findings from experiments of the
reading of English and other European languages (Reichle, 2020, Computational models of …

Laying the groundwork to investigate diversity of life sciences reading lists in higher education and its link to awarding gaps

M Taylor, J Hung, TE Che, D Akinbosede… - Education …, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study presents a case for decolonising the life sciences curriculum to improve
representation of the Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) scholars—a step in …

English speakers' implicit gender concepts influence their processing of french grammatical gender: Evidence for semantically mediated cross-linguistic influence

E Nicoladis, C Westbury… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Second language (L2) learners often show influence from their first language (L1) in all
domains of language. This cross-linguistic influence could, in some cases, be mediated by …

Boys write about boys: Androcentrism in children's reading experience and its emergence in children's own writing

Y Hsiao, N Banerji, K Nation - Child Development, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gender bias exists in our language environment. We investigated personal name usage in
two large corpora of language written for and by UK children aged 5–13. Study 1 found an …

The continued importance of theory: Lessons from big data approaches to language and cognition.

BT Johns, RK Jamieson, MN Jones - 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Big data approaches to cognition have become increasingly popular, coinciding with the
continued collection and curation of extremely large collections of human behavior. The …