nonword

In this task, participants are asked to determine if a given string is a word or a nonword.

The latter is an example of a nonword.

"Currentical was her new favorite nonword: it meant anything touched by, dealing with, or likely to contain current.

"Civics has become a nonword in the curriculum," said Mr. Boyer.

One of the findings of the Johnston and McClelland report was that the WSE does not occur inevitably whenever we compare a word and a nonword.

Part way through the presentation of the text, a string of letters is presented visually to the participant and their task is to decide if this is a word or a nonword.

The Lexical Decision Task is an implicit memory task in which participants are given a stimulus (a string of letters), and asked to decide whether this string is a word or a nonword.

"Although browser is a term used throughout Microsoft's documents and licenses, the industry literature, and even in the dictionary Microsoft publishes for software professionals," the brief says, "in the interest of Microsoft's litigation arguments it becomes a nonword.

Another variation of this answering scheme is for participants to respond "same" if the strings are either both words or both nonwords, and "different" if one of the strings is a word and the other is a nonword.

To determine if infants were picking up on the statistical information, each infant was presented with multiple presentations of either a word from the artificial grammar or a nonword made up of the same syllables but presented in a random order.

Phonological paraphasia, also referred to as phonemic paraphasia or literal paraphasia, refers to the substitution of a word with a nonword that preserves at least half of the segments and/or number of syllables of the intended word.

The nonword was invented when Medicare and Medicaid appeared in the 1960's, and it was convenient to have an encompassing term that included both medical and hospital services, as well as some that weren't either one but were nevertheless recognized in Medicare and Medicaid.