Verbal Learning

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The influence of exposure to phonological neighbours on preschoolers novel word production.

We investigated the influence of exposure to phonologically similar words on four-year-olds acquisition of novel object words. In Experiment 1, hearing phonological neighbours before learning a new word did not influence childrens novel word productions. ...
Tamara L Demke, Susan A Graham, Paul D Siakaluk (J Child Lang, 200205)
influence-exposure-phonological-neighbours-preschoolers-novel-word.asp

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Basic-level nouns: first learned but misunderstood.

It is commonly believed that first-learned words correspond with first-learned categories (both described as basic level) leading to the belief that language acquisition is a reasonably good indicator of early cognition. However, toddlers often ...
Laraine McDonough (J Child Lang, 200205)
basic-level-nouns-first-learned-misunderstood.asp

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The acquisition of compound vs. phrasal stress: the role of prosodic constituents.

This paper investigates the acquisition of compound vs. phrasal stress (hót dog vs. hot dóg) in English. This has previously been shown to be acquired quite late, in contrast to recent research showing that infants both perceive and prefer rhythmic ...
Irene Vogel, Eric Raimy (J Child Lang, 200205)
acquisition-compound-vs-phrasal-stress-role-prosodic-constituents.asp

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In the beginning was the rhyme? A reflection on Hulme, Hatcher, Nation, Brown, Adams, and Stuart (2002).

Phonological sensitivity at different grain sizes is a good predictor of reading acquisition in all languages. However, prior to any explicit tuition in alphabetic knowledge, phonological sensitivity develops at the larger grain sizes-syllables, onsets, ...
Usha Goswami (J Exp Child Psychol, 200205)
beginning-rhyme-reflection-hulme-hatcher-nation-brown-adams-stuart.asp

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Reflections on onset-rime and phoneme sensitivity as predictors of beginning word reading.

Rival claims have been made concerning the importance of rime sensitivity as a predictor of early word reading skill. Hulme et al. (2002) suggested that phoneme sensitivity is more strongly predictive of word reading ability than is onset-rime ...
Judith A Bowey (J Exp Child Psychol, 200205)
reflections-onset-rime-phoneme-sensitivity-predictors-beginning-word.asp

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Acquisition of serial complexity in speech production: a comparison of phonetic and phonological approaches to first word production.

Comparison was made between performance-based and competence-based approaches to the understanding of first word production. The performance-related frame/content approach is representative of the biological/functional perspective of phonetics in seeking ...
Barbara L Davis, Peter F MacNeilage, Christine L Matyear (Phonetica, 200204-09)
acquisition-serial-complexity-speech-production-comparison-phonetic.asp

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The influence of age of acquisition, root frequency, and context availability in processing nouns and verbs.

In the Italian language there is a higher number of inflectional suffixes in verbs than in nouns, and this might imply that verbs are more likely to undergo a morphological analysis in terms of root and suffix as compared to nouns (Traficante & Burani, ...
Lucia Colombo, Cristina Burani (Brain Lang, 200204-06)
influence-age-acquisition-root-frequency-context-availability.asp

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Conceptual representation of verbs in bilinguals: semantic field effects and a second-language performance paradox.

It is well known that bilinguals perform better in their first language (L1) than in their second lanaguage (L2) in a wide range of linguistic tasks. In recent studies, however, the authors have found that bilingual participants can demonstrate faster ...
Norman Segalowitz, Roberto G de Almeida (Brain Lang, 200204-06)
conceptual-representation-verbs-bilinguals-semantic-field-effects.asp

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The cues that children use in acquiring adjectival phrases and compound nouns: evidence from bilingual children.

This study explores the cues used in acquisition of two semantically similar structures that are ordered differently in French and English: adjectival phrases and compound nouns. One possible prediction is that children attend primarily to meaning, so ...
Elena Nicoladis (Brain Lang, 200204-06)
cues-children-acquiring-adjectival-phrases-compound-nouns-evidence.asp

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Intervocalic consonants in the acquisition of German: onsets, codas or something else?

This study examines the behaviour of five phonemes /f, [symbol: see text], ts, k, l/ in word-initial, word-final, and intervocalic positions in the productions of five German-speaking children (age 1;3 to 3;3 years) in order to determine the patterning ...
Margaret M Kehoe, Conxita Lleó (Clin Linguist Phon, 200204-05)
intervocalic-consonants-acquisition-german-onsets-codas-or-something.asp