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de Long, Shauna P. A.; Folk, Jocelyn R. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
The current study investigated whether semantic (meaning) knowledge benefits learning orthography (spelling). Adult readers read 14 novel non-words embedded in sentences with informative or uninformative context. Orthographic and semantic posttests assessed learning. In E1, results indicated that the relationship between context and orthographic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Incidental Learning, Spelling, Psycholinguistics
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Aleksandrov, Aleksander A.; Memetova, Kristina S.; Stankevich, Lyudmila N.; Knyazeva, Veronika M.; Shtyrov, Yury – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
Lexical ERPs (event-related potentials) obtained in an oddball paradigm were suggested to be an index of the formation of new word representations in the brain in the learning process: with increased exposure to new lexemes, the ERP amplitude grows, which is interpreted as a signature of a new memory-trace build-up and activation. Previous…
Descriptors: Semantics, Word Frequency, Familiarity, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Cheng, Yu-Lin – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
English orthographic learning, among Chinese-L1 children who were beginning to learn English as a foreign language, was documented when: (1) "only" visual memory was at their disposal, (2) visual memory and either "some" letter-sound knowledge or "some" semantic information was available, and (3) visual memory,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Collina, Simona; Tabossi, Patrizia; De Simone, Flavia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2013
Psycholinguistic experiments conducted with the picture-word interference paradigm are typically preceded by a phase during which participants learn the words they will have to produce in the experiment. In Experiment 1, the pictures (e.g., a frog) were to be named and were presented with a categorically related (e.g., "cat") or…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Pictorial Stimuli, Semantics, Naming
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Liu, Chin-Ting Jimbo; Lee, Hsiu-Fen Hélène – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2014
This study intends to shed light on the inconclusive argument pertaining to children's acquisition of logical form (LF) operation. Specifically, we examined children's interpretations of sentences with the ambiguous modal verb "yinggai" "should," like "Xiaohua yinggai shangchuang shuijiao le", whose meanings…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Children, Learning Processes, Verbs