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Chen, Jianlin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
The parasitic model proposes that novel words in L3 learning will build parasitic connections to already learned words that share orthographic or phonological similarities. This accounts for little in terms of the connections between words that share very few similarities. The present study explored the parasitic connections of L3 word concepts to…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Gogate, Lakshmi; Maganti, Madhavilatha – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: This experiment examined English- or Spanish-learning preverbal (8-9 months, n = 32) and postverbal (12-14 months, n = 40) infants' learning of word-action pairings prior to and after the transition to verb comprehension and its relation to naturally learned vocabulary. Method: Infants of both verbal levels were first habituated to 2…
Descriptors: Verbs, Infants, Language Acquisition, English

Bowers, John; Fisher, E. A. – Convergence, 1972
A classification system for educational statistics, the International Standard Classification of Education, was created to compare statistics on adult education. However, it is necessary to untangle the terminology associated with adult education in order to utilize ISCED. Authors attempt to restate and refine terms and concepts for that purpose.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Concept Formation, Definitions, Educational Planning
Kail, Robert V., Jr.; Levine, Laura – 1974
A total of 240, 7- and 10-year-olds were tested on memory and sex-role preference tasks. The memory task was the Wickens release from proactive inhibition paradigm in which short-term recall of words is tested on successive trials. On trials 1-4 words were selected from 1 of 2 categories, either words with masculine or feminine connotations. On…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology, Elementary Education
Eaton, Helen S., Comp. – 1961
This semantic frequency list for English, French, German, and Spanish correlates 6,474 concepts represented by individual words in an order of diminishing occurrence. Designed as a research tool, the work is segmented into seven comparative "Thousand Concepts" lists with 115 sectional subdivisions, each of which begins with the key English word…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Correlation, Cross Cultural Studies