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Foy, Judith G.; Mann, Virginia A. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
Neighborhood density influences adult performance on several word processing tasks. Some studies show age-related effects of density on children's performance, reflecting a developmental restructuring of the mental lexicon from holistic into segmental representations that may play a role in phonological awareness. To further investigate density…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Age Differences, Adults, Comparative Analysis
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Newman, Rochelle; Ratner, Nan Bernstein; Jusczyk, Ann Marie; Jusczyk, Peter W.; Dow, Kathy Ayala – Developmental Psychology, 2006
Two studies examined relationships between infants' early speech processing performance and later language and cognitive outcomes. Study 1 found that performance on speech segmentation tasks before 12 months of age related to expressive vocabulary at 24 months. However, performance on other tasks was not related to 2-year vocabulary. Study 2…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Vocabulary