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Sidhu, David M.; Khachatoorian, Nareg; Vigliocco, Gabriella – Cognitive Science, 2023
Iconicity refers to a resemblance between word form and meaning. Previous work has shown that iconic words are learned earlier and processed faster. Here, we examined whether iconic words are recognized better on a recognition memory task. We also manipulated the level at which items were encoded--with a focus on either their meaning or their…
Descriptors: Recognition (Psychology), Memory, Language Usage, Phonology
Frances, Candice; De Bruin, Angela; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
Prior research has found reduced emotionality with foreign language use, especially with single words, but what happens if emotionality is conveyed throughout a longer text? Does emotionality affect how well we remember and associate information, that is, content learning? We played participants descriptions of two invented countries and tested…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Emotional Response, Language Usage, Memory
Yuxin Chen; Yaqiong Wang – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This study investigates how academic disciplines impact second language (L2) lexical competencies. Prior L2 research has often overlooked the broader effects of disciplinary backgrounds on lexical development. To address this gap, this study utilized lexical decision, memory, and semantic fluency tasks to examine lexicon recognition, memory, and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Second Language Learning, Reaction Time, Accuracy
Li, Yangping; Kenett, Yoed N.; Hu, Weiping; Beaty, Roger E. – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
Metaphors are a common way to express creative language, yet the cognitive basis of figurative language production remains poorly understood. Previous studies found that higher creative individuals can better comprehend novel metaphors, potentially due to a more flexible semantic memory network structure conducive to remote conceptual combination.…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Semantics, Networks, Creativity
Bhatia, Sudeep – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
This article examines how semantic memory processes influence the items that are considered by decision makers in memory-based preferential choice. Experiments 1A through 1C ask participants to list the choice items that come to their minds while deliberating in a variety of everyday choice settings. These experiments use semantic space models to…
Descriptors: Semantics, Preferences, Decision Making, Memory
Mazachowsky, Tessa R.; Atance, Cristina M.; Rutt, Joshua L.; Mahy, Caitlin E. V. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
The ability to project oneself forward in time and imagine a future episode, known as episodic foresight (EpF), is an important aspect of future thinking. EpF tasks often involve children choosing an item for a future episode, yet the degree to which future projection is required to succeed -- versus memory or semantic associations -- has been…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Item Analysis, Memory, Semantics
Honta, Ihor; Pastushenko, Tatiana; Borysenko, Nataliia – Advanced Education, 2019
The study aimed to identify the semantic and structural characteristics of ethnophobic terms with a colour component, as well as the conceptual basis and extralinguistic factors that have a role in their formation. Ethnophobic terms tend to emerge in the non-standard language, with slang making its core. Although often marked as derogatory or…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Usage, Minority Groups, Language Variation
Chen, Mei-Hua – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2019
Lexical competence is considered as an important indicator of language proficiency. While learning vocabulary, learners need to remember various aspects of knowledge about the word (e.g., meaning, form and use). Many vocabulary learning strategies have been proposed to help learners consolidate vocabulary knowledge. Among them, grouping words…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Development, Computational Linguistics, Chinese
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
Méndez, David I.; Alcaraz, M. Ángeles – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
In this study, we carry out a qualitative and quantitative analysis of abbreviations in 300 randomly collected research paper titles published in the most prestigious European and US-based Astrophysics journals written in English. Our main results show that the process of shortening words and groups of words is one of the most characteristic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Memory, Scholarship, Periodicals
Woltz, Dan J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Three experiments investigated facilitation in synonym decisions as a function of prior synonym decision trials that were either identical or semantically related. Experiment 1 demonstrated that semantically related prime trials produced less facilitation than identical prime trials, but facilitation from both persisted over 14 intervening trials.…
Descriptors: Priming, Semantics, Language Usage, Decision Making
Chilton, Molly Welsh; Ehri, Linnea C. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2015
An experiment compared the impact of more and less semantically connected sentence contexts on vocabulary learning. Third graders (N = 40) were taught the definitions and meanings of six unfamiliar verbs: "anticipate," "attain," "devise," "restrain," "wield," and "persist." The verbs were…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Sentences, Semantics, Vignettes
Loftus, Elizabeth F.; Palmer, John C. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1974
Two experiments are reported in which subjects viewed films of automobile accidents and then answered questions about events occurring in the films. Wording of questions regarding speed influenced subjects' estimates of speed. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Research, Language Usage, Memory
Ehri, Linnea C.; Muzio, Irene M. – 1973
This study explored the viability of several theories in describing adjective memory. For the study, college students were told either to form images or to learn sentences. A noun-prompted sentence recall task exposed their memory for adjectives modifying either subject nouns. Results revealed that subject modifiers were better remembered than…
Descriptors: Adjectives, College Students, Educational Research, Higher Education
Keenan, Janice M.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Four versions of several paragraphs had the same second sentence and were referentially coherent, but they differed in causal relatedness of the two sentences. Results showed that despite referential coherence, recognition and recall memory for the causes was poorest for the most and least related causes and best for causes of intermediate…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Language Usage
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