학술논문
New Zealand text-speak word norms and masked priming effects.
Document Type
Article
Source
Subject
*WORD recognition
*INSTANT messaging
*PRIMING (Psychology)
*LEXICAL access
*DECISION making
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*COMPUTER networks
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Language
ISSN
0112-109X
Abstract
Text messaging and online instant messaging are popular means of communication in New Zealand. Given the constraints of space and time, people use text-speak (a method for shortening words or phrases) to convey messages more concisely (Head, Helton, Neumann, Russell, & Shears, 2011). The current study collected text-speak word norms from 100 native New Zealanders. An abridged sample of these subset text-speak words (e.g., txt, text) was used within a masked priming experiment. It was found that subset primes produce significantly faster and more accurate responses to target probes relative to non-words in a lexical decision task. A text-speak questionnaire was given to determine if a relationship between subset priming and experience with text-speak exists. The questionnaire revealed that those who reported being more experienced with text-speak benefited more from text-speak primes than those who reported being less experienced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]