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Shuyan Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Scalar implicatures (SIs) lie at the interface between semantics and pragmatics, and therefore have evoked great interest for language acquisition research. Many acquisition studies show that young children know the literal semantics of scalar items (like "some", "might", "start" and "or") but have…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pragmatics, Language Acquisition, Child Language
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Owen, Kay; Barnes, Christopher – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Despite receiving scant attention, the evolution of categorization in early childhood is of central importance, not only in clarifying the child's understanding of the world but in terms of refining cognitive organization and augmenting the development of semantic memory. In this review, we outline how categorization develops and is made manifest…
Descriptors: Classification, Early Childhood Education, Semantics, Memory
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Fletcher, Fay E.; Knowland, Victoria; Walker, Sarah; Gaskell, M. Gareth; Norbury, Courtenay; Henderson, Lisa M. – Developmental Science, 2020
Sleep is known to support the neocortical consolidation of declarative memory, including the acquisition of new language. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is often characterized by both sleep and language learning difficulties, but few studies have explored a potential connection between the two. Here, 54 children with and without ASD (matched on…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Sleep, Neurological Impairments
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Eskenazi, Michael A.; Nix, Bailey – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Reading in difficult or novel fonts results in slower and less efficient reading (Slattery & Rayner, 2010); however, these fonts may also lead to better learning and memory (Diemand-Yauman, Oppenheimer, & Vaughan, 2011). This effect is consistent with a desirable difficulty effect such that more effort during encoding results in better…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Difficulty Level, Word Frequency, Layout (Publications)
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Thothathiri, Malathi; Braiuca, Maria C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Previous studies using artificial languages suggest that sentence production can be guided by verb-specific as well as verb-general statistics present in the language input. Here we investigated whether the statistical properties of ongoing input in the speakers' native language systematically affected their sentence production. Three experiments…
Descriptors: Verbs, Cues, Semantics, Cognitive Mapping
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Ambridge, Ben – First Language, 2020
The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and comprehended by on-the-fly analogy across multiple stored exemplars, weighted by their degree of similarity to the target with regard to the task at hand. Across the domains of (1) word meanings,…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Morphology (Languages), Phonetics, Phonology
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Dautriche, Isabelle; Chemla, Emmanuel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Upon hearing a novel word, language learners must identify its correct meaning from a diverse set of situationally relevant options. Such referential ambiguity could be reduced through "repetitive" exposure to the novel word across diverging learning situations, a learning mechanism referred to as "cross-situational learning."…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Ambiguity (Context), Ambiguity (Semantics)
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Tytus, Agnieszka Ewa – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The growing number of multilingual speakers poses an interesting question as to the way in which three or more languages are represented in the memory of a language user. The Revised Hierarchical Model (Kroll and Stewart in "J Mem Lang" 33: 149-174, 1994) or the Sense Model (Finkbeiner et al. in "J Mem Lang" 51(1), 1-22, 2004)…
Descriptors: Semantics, Second Language Learning, German, French
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Singh, Leher – Child Development, 2014
The interconnectedness of bilingual memory remains a topic of great debate. Semantic priming provides a powerful methodological tool with which to investigate this issue in early bilingual toddlers. Semantic priming effects were investigated in 21 bilingual toddlers (2.5 years) within and across each of their languages. Results revealed the first…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Memory, Toddlers, Language Dominance
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Lakusta, Laura; Carey, Susan – Language Learning and Development, 2015
Across languages and event types (i.e., agentive and nonagentive motion, transfer, change of state, attach/detach), goal paths are privileged over source paths in the linguistic encoding of events. Furthermore, some linguistic analyses suggest that goal paths are more central than source paths in the semantic and syntactic structure of motion…
Descriptors: Infants, Motion, Goal Orientation, Semantics
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Paciorek, Albertyna; Williams, John N. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Despite many years of investigation into implicit learning in nonlinguistic domains, the potential for implicit learning to deliver the kinds of generalizations that underlie natural language competence remains unclear. In a series of experiments, we investigated implicit learning of the semantic preferences of novel verbs, specifically, whether…
Descriptors: Semantics, Generalization, Verbs, Nouns
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Mainela-Arnold, Elina; Evans, Julia L. – Journal of Child Language, 2014
This study tested the predictions of the procedural deficit hypothesis by investigating the relationship between sequential statistical learning and two aspects of lexical ability, lexical-phonological and lexical-semantic, in children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). Participants included forty children (ages 8;5-12;3), twenty…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Child Language, Semantics, Correlation
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Lindsay, Shane; Gaskell, M. Gareth – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Learning a new word involves integration with existing lexical knowledge. Previous work has shown that sleep-associated memory consolidation processes are important for the engagement of novel items in lexical competition. In 3 experiments we used spaced exposure regimes to investigate memory for novel words and whether lexical integration can…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, English, Sleep
Nedwick, Kelly M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Negation is a unique and fascinating property of human language which has been given extensive theoretical and typological treatment. One categorization divides negation use into metalinguistic negation and descriptive negation (Horn, 1985). Descriptive negation (DN) is the truth-functional semantic operator which has received the most attention…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Morphemes, Classification, Morphology (Languages)
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Felser, Claudia; Cunnings, Ian; Batterham, Claire; Clahsen, Harald – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
Using the eye-movement monitoring technique in two reading comprehension experiments, this study investigated the timing of constraints on wh-dependencies (so-called island constraints) in first- and second-language (L1 and L2) sentence processing. The results show that both L1 and L2 speakers of English are sensitive to extraction islands during…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Eye Movements
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