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Nicholas Stanley; Tara Davis – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if there are age-related differences in semantic processing with linguistic and nonlinguistic masking, as measured by the N400. Method: Sixteen young (19-31 years) and 16 middle-aged (41-57 years) adults with relatively normal hearing sensitivity were asked to determine whether word pairs were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Semantics, Young Adults, Adults
Amy Vogel-Eyny – ProQuest LLC, 2021
One of the notable language difficulties experienced by healthy older adults is word retrieval failure, specifically the tip-of-the-tongue state (TOT). A TOT occurs when one has a strong sense of knowing the word, such that the semantic content is accessed, but the entirety of the word's phonology is temporarily inaccessible. Such retrieval…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Linguistic Performance, Older Adults, Nouns
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Schwab, Jessica F.; Lew-Williams, Casey; Goldberg, Adele E. – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Children tend to regularize their productions when exposed to artificial languages, an advantageous response to unpredictable variation. But generalizations in natural languages are typically conditioned by factors that children ultimately learn. In two experiments, adult and six-year-old learners witnessed two novel classifiers, probabilistically…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Language Processing, Semantics
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Zhang, Xiaopeng – Language Learning, 2017
This study adopted Ambridge's research paradigm to examine the effects of entrenchment, preemption, and verb semantics in second language (L2) acquisition of English "un-" prefixation. Three groups of Chinese learners of English (second- and fourth-year English majors and teachers of English) rated the acceptability of 48 "un-"…
Descriptors: Generalization, Error Analysis (Language), Linguistic Performance, Language Styles