Effect of fatigue level on lexical choice

Student: Irina Makarova

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Applied Linguistics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2023

The purpose of the current study is to investigate the effect of fatigue level on the success and speed of lexical selection. In order to measure these characteristics, a task was created and subsequently presented to the research participants. A comparative analysis of discourse in the fatigue state and in the active state revealed the effect of fatigue level on fluency, the number of false starts and errors in the participants' speech, focusing on the lexical selection result.

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