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Günther, Fritz; Marelli, Marco – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Effects of semantic transparency, reflected in processing differences between semantically transparent ("teabag") and opaque ("ladybird") compounds, have received considerable attention in the investigation of the role of constituents in compound processing. However, previous studies have yielded inconsistent results. In the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Vocabulary, Definitions
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Quílez, Juan – Science & Education, 2021
This study discusses how textbook educational approaches concerning Le Châtelier's principle (LCP) may hinder student comprehension and prediction of chemical equilibrium disturbances. Firstly, after summarising students' LCP erroneous assertions/explanations, a categorisation of the potential barriers that may originate student misunderstandings…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Barriers, Science Instruction, Textbooks
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Fuentes-Lorenzo, Damaris; Morato, Jorge; Sanchez-Cuadrado, Sonia; Sanchez, Luis – Education for Information, 2019
Building and checking concept maps is an active research topic in visual learning. Concept maps are intended to show visual representations of interrelated concepts in educational and professional settings. For the last decades, numerous formulas have been proposed to compute the semantic proximity between any pair of concepts in the map. A review…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Web Sites, Collaborative Writing, Information Sources
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Ambridge, Ben; Kidd, Evan; Rowland, Caroline F.; Theakston, Anna L. – Journal of Child Language, 2015
This review article presents evidence for the claim that frequency effects are pervasive in children's first language acquisition, and hence constitute a phenomenon that any successful account must explain. The article is organized around four key domains of research: children's acquisition of single words, inflectional morphology, simple…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Child Language, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
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Apel, Kenn – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2011
Purpose: Orthographic knowledge refers to the information that is stored in memory that tells us how to represent spoken language in written form. Unfortunately, terms used to talk about orthographic knowledge and the two individual components that contribute to it have varied widely in the literature. Thus, consensus on the term, its meaning, and…
Descriptors: Written Language, Language Processing, Vocabulary, Literacy
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Amaral, Luiz; Roeper, Tom – Second Language Research, 2014
This paper presents an extension of the Multiple Grammars Theory (Roeper, 1999) to provide a formal mechanism that can serve as a generative-based alternative to current descriptive models of interlanguage. The theory extends historical work by Kroch and Taylor (1997), and has been taken into a computational direction by Yang (2003). The proposal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory, Language Acquisition, Native Language
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Dekydtspotter, Laurent; Miller, A. Katherine – Second Language Research, 2013
Two experiments involving picture classifications investigated priming behavior in the context of "wh"-movement at clause edge and in indirect object position, respectively. In Experiment 1, intermediate L1-Chinese L2-English learners produced slower classification times (inhibitions) at clause edge, apparently induced by the computation of…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Priming, Second Language Learning, Classification
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Gow, David W., Jr. – Brain and Language, 2012
Current accounts of spoken language assume the existence of a lexicon where wordforms are stored and interact during spoken language perception, understanding and production. Despite the theoretical importance of the wordform lexicon, the exact localization and function of the lexicon in the broader context of language use is not well understood.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Speech, Phonetics, Semantics
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Simon, Dylan Alexander; Lewis, Gwyneth; Marantz, Alec – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
We present an MEG study of homonym recognition in reading, identifying effects of a semantic measure of homonym ambiguity. This measure sheds light on two competing theories of lexical access: the "early access" theory, which entails that lexical access occurs at early (pre 200 ms) stages of processing; and the "late access" theory, which…
Descriptors: Semantics, Ambiguity (Semantics), Vocabulary, Word Recognition
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Nation, Kate; Hulme, Charles – Developmental Science, 2011
Individual differences in nonword repetition are associated with language and literacy development, but few studies have considered the extent to which learning to read influences phonological skills as indexed by nonword repetition performance. We explored this question using a latent variable longitudinal design. Reading, oral language and…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Elementary School Students, Vocabulary, Semantics
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Renoult, Louis; Debruille, J. Bruno – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
The N400 ERP is an electrophysiological index of semantic processing. Its amplitude varies with the semantic category of words, their concreteness, or whether their meaning matches that of a preceding context. The results of a number of studies suggest that these effects could be markedly reduced or suppressed for stimuli that are repeated.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Language Processing
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Morford, Jill P.; Wilkinson, Erin; Villwock, Agnes.; Pinar, Pilar; Kroll, Judith F. – Cognition, 2011
Deaf bilinguals for whom American Sign Language (ASL) is the first language and English is the second language judged the semantic relatedness of word pairs in English. Critically, a subset of both the semantically related and unrelated word pairs were selected such that the translations of the two English words also had related forms in ASL. Word…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Translation, Deafness, American Sign Language
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Wong, Anita M.-Y.; Ciocca, Valter; Yung, Sun – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2009
Purpose: This study examined the perception of fundamental frequency (f0) patterns by Cantonese children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). Method: Participants were 14 five-year-old children with SLI, and 14 age-matched (AM) and 13 four-year-old vocabulary-matched (VM) controls. The children identified a word from familiar word…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Young Children, Sino Tibetan Languages, Perception
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Mirman, Daniel; Magnuson, James S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
The authors investigated semantic neighborhood density effects on visual word processing to examine the dynamics of activation and competition among semantic representations. Experiment 1 validated feature-based semantic representations as a basis for computing semantic neighborhood density and suggested that near and distant neighbors have…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Semantics, Word Frequency, Language Processing
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Ehrich, John; Wolgemuth, Jennifer R.; Helmer, Janet; Oteng, Georges; Lea, Tess; Bartlett, Claire; Smith, Heather; Emmett, Sue – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2010
As part of an evaluation of a web-based early literacy intervention, ABRACADABRA, a small exploratory study was conducted over one term in three primary schools in the Northern Territory. Of particular concern was the relationship between attendance and the acquisition of early literacy skills of Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. Using the…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Emergent Literacy, Reading Skills, Attendance
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