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Butterfield, Gail B.; Butterfield, Earl C. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
People of ages 4, 6, 8, 10, 20 and 70 years named pictures selected to represent the entire range of lexical consensus among 20-year-olds. Consensus within each group increased with age, up to 20. Data indicate words coding culturally important events are acquired earliest. (CHK)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Language Acquisition, Lexicology, Verbal Development
Moeser, Shannon Dawn – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
College students were presented with an artificial language in which spoken nonsense words were correlated with visual references. Inferences regarding vocabulary acquisition were drawn, and it was suggested that the processing of the language was mediated through a semantic memory system. (CK)
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Language Learning Levels, Memory, Second Language Learning
