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There is evidence that factors relating to the words contained in a written passage affect the reading rate, unknown word density, and text comprehension. In the same vein, factors relating to the words contained in a speech may, though not attested, affect speech processing. The present study tested if factors relating to the words contained in a listening test item affect its ease of processing and found significant correlations between the ease of listening test items and average lexical decision and naming latencies of the words contained in them. Implications of the results are discussed in terms of the relationships or parallelism between listening and reading comprehension, the possibility of computing and predicting the ease of processing of a listening test item and/or a speech, and the universality of language learning.
