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UniPseudo: A universal pseudoword generator

UniPseudo : A Universal Pseudoword Generator

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Pseudowords are letter strings that look like words but are not words. They are used in psycholinguistic research, particularly in tasks such as lexical decision. In this context, it is essential that the pseudowords respect the orthographic statistics of the target language. Pseudowords that violate them would be too easy to reject in a lexical decision and would not enforce word recognition on real words. We propose a new pseudoword generator, UniPseudo, using an algorithm based on Markov chains of orthographic n-grams. It generates pseudowords from a customizable database, which allows one to control the characteristics of the items. It can produce pseudowords in any language, in orthographic or phonological form. It is possible to generate pseudowords with specific characteristics, such as frequency of letters, bigrams, trigrams, or quadrigrams, number of syllables, frequency of biphones, and number of morphemes. Thus, from a list of words composed of verbs, nouns, adjectives, or adverbs, UniPseudo can create pseudowords resembling verbs, nouns, adjectives, or adverbs in any language using an alphabetic or syllabic system.

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hal-04285155 , version 1 (14-11-2023)

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Boris New, Jessica Bourgin, Julien Barra, Christophe Pallier. UniPseudo: A universal pseudoword generator. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2023, pp.174702182311643. ⟨10.1177/17470218231164373⟩. ⟨hal-04285155⟩
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