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Peter T. Richtsmeier; Allison Gladfelter; Michelle W. Moore – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: This study examined learning via perception, learning via production, and semantic depth as contributors to word learning in preschool-aged children. There is broad evidence that semantic depth is an important contributor to word learning, especially when semantic cues are repeated and spaced out over time. Perceptual learning and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Semantics, Perceptual Development, Vocabulary Development
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Erin Campbell; Robyn Casillas; Elika Bergelson – Developmental Science, 2024
What is vision's role in driving early word production? To answer this, we assessed parent-report vocabulary questionnaires administered to congenitally blind children (N = 40, Mean age = 24 months [R: 7-57 months]) and compared the size and contents of their productive vocabulary to those of a large normative sample of sighted children (N =…
Descriptors: Vision, Language Acquisition, Parent Attitudes, Vocabulary Development
Roux, Catherine; Dion, Eric; Barrette, Anne – Canadian Journal of Education, 2015
Reading with comprehension is a challenge for students with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. Unfortunately, research has little to offer to teachers trying to help these students. The present study pilots a new intervention targeting vocabulary, main idea identification, anaphoric relations, and text structure. Students (N = 13, M…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention
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Pulverman, Rachel; Song, Lulu; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Pruden, Shannon M.; Golinkoff, Roberta M. – Child Development, 2013
In the world, the manners and paths of motion events take place together, but in language, these features are expressed separately. How do infants learn to process motion events in linguistically appropriate ways? Forty-six English-learning 7- to 9-month-olds were habituated to a motion event in which a character performed both a manner and a…
Descriptors: English, Language Acquisition, Infants, Cognitive Processes
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Zokaee, Saeedeh; Zaferanieh, Elaheh; Naseri, Mahdieh – English Language Teaching, 2012
Students' learning styles and vocabulary learning strategies are among the main factors that help determine how students learn second language vocabulary. This work examined the extent to which choice of vocabulary learning strategies is affected by students' perceptual learning style. In this research, the participants were 54 EFL learners at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Perceptual Development, Vocabulary Development
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Diesendruck, Gil; Shatz, Marilyn – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Investigated whether and when children establish various semantic relations between old and new words. Fifty 2-year olds were taught labels for objects previously referred to by an overextended term. Findings are discussed in light of theories of lexical development, particularly with regard to conceptualizations of constraints on the acquisition…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Linguistic Theory, Perceptual Development
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Wheeler, Roberta – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 1980
Reports a study designed to determine whether students with learning problems could increase their own reading efficiency by learning through resources that complemented their perceptual strengths. Subjects were 16 children in a second grade learning disabilities class. Their reading vocabularies were improved during the perceptual program.…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Learning Modalities, Perceptual Development, Primary Education
Cole, P. G.; Gardner, J. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1988
The study found that providing feedback and goals in an accelerating standards condition had a positive effect on the learning of eight retarded children (mean age 9 years) on a five-choice discrimination task requiring vocabulary and perceptual competence. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education, Feedback, Goal Orientation
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Andrich, Gail Rex; Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Journal of Child Language, 1986
Reports two studies which investigated the acquisition of color terms by preschool children. The first was designed to clarify the role of certain conceptual factors in the acquisition of color terms. The second explored how input may interact with these conceptual factors and help to guide the acquisition of color words. (SED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Color, Comprehension, Concept Formation
Dillon, David – 1975
This study focuses on the semantic development of individual lexical items, as viewed from a semantic features perspective. It involves four narrow semantic domains, a sample of elementary school-children and their teachers, and two native language groups, English and Spanish. Semantic development is studied through the process of equivalence…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students
Grace, Janet; Suci, George J. – 1981
A study is undertaken to determine whether the nonlinguistic priority of the agent of an action facilitates the comprehension of word reference. The subjects were twelve male and twelve female infants at the one word stage of language production. The children were presented with three nonsense names (presented as part of a narration of a filmed…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Case (Grammar), Child Language, Concept Formation
Barton, David – 1976
Several studies have begun to investigate the claim that children can make most phonological discriminations when they begin to speak. This paper investigates how well children aged 2;3 to 2;11 can discriminate between pairs of minimally different real words, and it shows that the results are affected by how well the children know the words. It is…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Distinctive Features (Language)