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Fecher, Natalie; Johnson, Elizabeth K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Adults recognize talkers better when the talkers speak a familiar language than when they speak an unfamiliar language. This language familiarity effect (LFE) demonstrates the inseparable nature of linguistic and indexical information in adult spoken language processing. Relatively little is known about children's integration of linguistic and…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Usage, Familiarity, Language Processing
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Mehrani, Mehdi B.; Peterson, Carole – First Language, 2017
In the present cross-linguistic study two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of age and linguistic background on response tendencies of preschoolers toward forced-choice questions. A total of 163 2- to 5-year-old children, including 63 Persian speakers, 57 Kurdish speakers and 43 English speakers, were asked a set of…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, English, Indo European Languages
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Babineau, Mireille; Shi, Rushen – Language Learning and Development, 2016
We examined how toddlers process lexical ambiguity where different underlying forms are neutralized at the surface level. In a preferential-looking procedure, French-learning 30-month-olds were familiarized with either liaison-ambiguous phrases (i.e., sentences containing a determiner and a non-word, e.g., "ces /z/onches," "these…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Familiarity, Language Acquisition, Toddlers
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Ozubko, Jason D.; Joordens, Steve – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The pseudoword effect is the finding that pseudowords (i.e., rare words or pronounceable nonwords) give rise to more hits and false alarms than words. Using the retrieving effectively from memory (REM) model of recognition memory, we tested a familiarity-based account of the pseudoword effect: Specifically, the pseudoword effect arises because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semantics, Familiarity, Word Recognition