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Judith F. Kroll; Paola E. Dussias – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
In the history of psycholinguistics, there are traditional accounts that have been told about language learning and processing. These accounts revolve around the constraints imposed by the age of language learning and by universal principles that are assumed to be natively given. The contribution of Brian MacWhinney and his collaborators has been…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Bilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Yang, Xiujie; Yan, Mengge; Ruan, Yijun; Ku, Serena Yuk Yee; Lo, Jason Chor Ming; Peng, Peng; McBride, Catherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
The present study presents a meta-analysis of the relations between phonological processing abilities and different mathematics subskills. Using a random-effects model with 94 studies (135 unique samples, 826 effect sizes), the present meta-analysis revealed a significant general association between phonological processing and mathematics (average…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Phonology, Language Processing, Meta Analysis
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Antonicelli, Giada; Rastelli, Stefano – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
Event-related potentials (ERPs) have become widespread in second language acquisition (SLA) research and a growing body of literature has been produced in recent years. We surveyed 61 SLA papers that use ERPs to study L2 sentence processing in healthy late learners. Our main aim was to provide a critical summary of findings from the decade…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Language Proficiency, Sentences
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Martelle, Stefanie N.; Namazi, Mahchid – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: The aim of this review is to illuminate the connection between inferential skills and spoken language idiom comprehension (SLIC) with a focus on autism. Idioms are frequently occurring figurative expressions, such as feeling blue, on cloud nine, and all tied up, that have literal and nonliteral meanings. Method: In this review article, an…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Correlation, Speech Communication, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Elsherif, M. M.; Preece, E.; Catling, J. C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Age of acquisition (AoA) refers to the age at which people learn a particular item and the AoA effect refers to the phenomenon that early-acquired items are processed more quickly and accurately than those acquired later. Over several decades, the AoA effect has been investigated using neuroscientific, behavioral, corpus and computational…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Correlation, Word Frequency, Word Recognition
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Samuel, Steven; Roehr-Brackin, Karen; Pak, Hyensou; Kim, Hyunji – Cognitive Science, 2018
The bilingual advantage hypothesis contends that the management of two languages in the brain is carried out through domain-general mechanisms, and that bilinguals possess a performance advantage over monolinguals on (nonlinguistic) tasks that tap these processes. Presently, there is evidence both for and against such an advantage. Interestingly,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Linguistic Theory, Language Processing, Cognitive Ability
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Flack, Zoe M.; Field, Andy P.; Horst, Jessica S. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Although an abundant literature documents preliterate children's word learning success from shared storybook reading, a full synthesis of the factors which moderate these word learning effects has been largely neglected. This meta-analysis included 38 studies with 2,455 children, reflecting 110 effect sizes, investigating how reading styles, story…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Effect Size, Story Reading, Meta Analysis
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A brief summary of research findings which support the hypothesis of scriptal knowledge structures in children and which indicates that children use such structures in ways very similar to those of adults is provided in this paper. Research reveals that when children as young as three are asked to tell what they know about events, they tend to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Interpretive Skills, Language Patterns
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Long, Michael H. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1990
Reviews the second-language research on age-related differences, drawing conclusions regarding learning-age influence on initial acquisition rate and ultimate attainment level; sensitive periods of language development; cumulative age-related loss in ability; and the adequacy of affective, input, and current cognitive explanations for reduced…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Acquisition
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Beckman, Mary E.; Edwards, Jan – Child Development, 2000
Presents evidence from studies on adults' language processing and children's language acquisition that the lexicon is at the core of grammatical generalizations at several levels of representation. Proposes that phonological acquisition might provide the bootstrapping into grammatical generalization in general. Concludes that age-appropriate…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Development, Children
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Cutler, Anne; Swinney, David A. – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Studies analyzing children's response time to detect word targets revealed that six-year-olds and younger children generally did not show the response time advantage for accented target words which adult listeners show, providing support for the argument that the processing advantage for accented words reflects the semantic role of accent as an…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Correlation, Deep Structure