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Ota, Mitsuhiko; Skarabela, Barbora – Language Learning and Development, 2016
Infants' disposition to learn repetitions in the input structure has been demonstrated in pattern generalization (e.g., learning the pattern ABB from the token "ledidi"). This study tested whether a repetition advantage can also be found in lexical learning (i.e., learning the word "lele" vs. "ledi"). Twenty-four…
Descriptors: Infants, English, Language Acquisition, Repetition
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Shafiee Nahrkhalaji, Saeedeh; Lotfi, Ahmad Reza; Koosha, Mansour – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
The present study aims to reveal some facts concerning first language (L[subscript 1]) and second language (L[subscript 2]) spoken-word processing in unbalanced proficient bilinguals using behavioral measures. The intention here is to examine the effects of auditory repetition word priming and semantic priming in first and second languages of…
Descriptors: English, Indo European Languages, Bilingualism, Language Processing
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Sears, Christopher R.; Campbell, Crystal R.; Lupker, Stephen J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
What is the effect of a word's higher frequency neighbors on its identification time? According to activation-based models of word identification (J. Grainger & A. M. Jacobs, 1996; J. L. McClelland & D. E. Rumelhart, 1981), words with higher frequency neighbors will be processed more slowly than words without higher frequency neighbors because of…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Identification, Word Frequency, Models