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Robert-Mihai Botarleanu; Micah Watanabe; Mihai Dascalu; Scott A. Crossley; Danielle S. McNamara – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2024
Age of Acquisition (AoA) scores approximate the age at which a language speaker fully understands a word's semantic meaning and represent a quantitative measure of the relative difficulty of words in a language. AoA word lists exist across various languages, with English having the most complete lists that capture the largest percentage of the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Robert-Mihai Botarleanu; Micah Watanabe; Mihai Dascalu; Scott A. Crossley; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Age of Acquisition (AoA) scores approximate the age at which a language speaker fully understands a word's semantic meaning and represent a quantitative measure of the relative difficulty of words in a language. AoA word lists exist across various languages, with English having the most complete lists that capture the largest percentage of the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hudson Kam, Carla L.; Newport, Elissa L. – Cognitive Psychology, 2009
When natural language input contains grammatical forms that are used probabilistically and inconsistently, learners will sometimes reproduce the inconsistencies; but sometimes they will instead regularize the use of these forms, introducing consistency in the language that was not present in the input. In this paper we ask what produces such…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Artificial Languages, Adult Learning, Linguistic Input