ABSTRACT
In recent years the characteristics of a given word’s similarity neighbourhood (words that are orthographically and/or phonologically similar) have become a topic of increasing interest in the word recognition literature. Prior to this, much of the enormous quantity of research on word recognition had been devoted to studying how a given word’s internal characteristics, such as its printed frequency, syntactic category, concreteness, bigram frequency etc., can influence the recognition of that word. It is only relatively recently, however, that the formal relationships between different words have become a major topic.
