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Fifty-seven subjects wrote synonyms to stimulus words of high, moderate and low word frequency selected from the Lorge-Thorndike lists. High stimulus words tended to elicit synonym responses of higher word frequency than did moderate and low words. In addition, mean word frequency of the responses was shown to be a decreasing function of list position of the response.
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Johnson, T.J., Meinke, D.L., Van Mondfrans, A.P. et al. Word frequency of synonym responses as a function of word frequency of the stimulus and list position of the response. Psychon Sci 2, 235–236 (1965). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03343423
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