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Pearl, Lisa – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Poverty of the stimulus has been at the heart of ferocious and tear-filled debates at the nexus of psychology, linguistics, and philosophy for decades. This review is intended as a guide for readers without a formal linguistics or philosophy background, focusing on what poverty of the stimulus is and how it's been interpreted, which is…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Learning Processes, Syntax, Semantics
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Kendall, Diane L.; Moldestad, Megan Oelke; Allen, Wesley; Torrence, Janaki; Nadeau, Stephen E. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The ultimate goal of anomia treatment should be to achieve gains in exemplars trained in the therapy session, as well as generalization to untrained exemplars and contexts. The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of phonomotor treatment, a treatment focusing on enhancement of phonological sequence knowledge, against semantic…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Therapy, Outcomes of Treatment, Semantics
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Ferman, Sara; Shmuel, Sapir Amira; Zaltz, Yael – Language Learning and Development, 2022
The acquisition of a new morphological rule can be influenced by numerous factors, including the type of feedback provided during learning. The present study aimed to test the effect of different feedback types on children's ability to learn and generalize an artificial morphological rule (AMR). Two groups of eight-year-olds learned to judge and…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Learning Processes
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Gerwin, Katelyn L.; Leonard, Laurence B.; Schumaker, Jennifer; Deevy, Patricia; Haebig, Eileen; Weber, Christine – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Recent findings in preschool children indicated novel adjective recall was enhanced when learned using repeated retrieval with contextual reinstatement (RRCR) compared to repeated study (RS). Recall was similar for learned pictures used during training and new (generalized) pictures with the same adjective features. The current study…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Recall (Psychology)
Al Ghanem, Reem – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Accurate and rapid word recognition requires highly-specified phonological, orthographic, and semantic word-specific representations. It has been established that children acquire these representations through phonological decoding in a process known as orthographic learning. Studies examining orthographic learning and its predictors have thus far…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Reading Difficulties, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Macoir, Joel; Routhier, Sonia; Simard, Anne; Picard, Josee – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2012
Anomia is one of the most frequent manifestations in aphasia. Model-based treatments for anomia usually focus on semantic and/or phonological levels of processing. This study reports treatment of anomia in an individual with chronic aphasia. After baseline testing, she received a training program in which semantic and phonological treatments were…
Descriptors: Phonology, Models, Semantics, Aphasia
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Taylor, J. S. H.; Plunkett, Kim; Nation, Kate – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Two experiments explored learning, generalization, and the influence of semantics on orthographic processing in an artificial language. In Experiment 1, 16 adults learned to read 36 novel words written in novel characters. Posttraining, participants discriminated trained from untrained items and generalized to novel items, demonstrating extraction…
Descriptors: Semantics, Artificial Languages, Reading Processes, Generalization
Reeder, Patricia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
A crucial component of language acquisition involves organizing words into grammatical categories and discovering relations between them. The organization of words into categories, and the generalization of patterns from some seen word combinations to novel ones, account for important aspects of the expansion of linguistic knowledge in the early…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, Grammar, Linguistics
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Dixon, R. M. W. – Language Sciences, 2008
Phonological and semantic principles which underlie the derivation of verbs from nouns and adjectives in English are examined. There is intricate phonological conditioning for suffix "-ize" and for suffix "-(i)fy"; a third major process is zero derivation. These derivational processes cover more than a score of semantic relations (some with…
Descriptors: Etymology, Semantics, Verbs, Nouns
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Thompson, Cynthia K. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2007
Purpose: To introduce a Clinical Forum focused on the Complexity Account of Treatment Efficacy (C. K. Thompson, L. P. Shapiro, S. Kiran, & J. Sobecks, 2003), a counterintuitive but effective approach for treating language disorders. This approach espouses training "complex" structures to promote generalized improvement of simpler, linguistically…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Acquisition, Difficulty Level, Generalization
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Vigliocco, Gabriella; Vinson, David P.; Lewis, William; Garrett, Merrill F. – Cognitive Psychology, 2004
This paper presents the Featural and Unitary Semantic Space (FUSS) hypothesis of the meanings of object and action words. The hypothesis, implemented in a statistical model, is based on the following assumptions: First, it is assumed that the meanings of words are grounded in conceptual featural representations, some of which are organized…
Descriptors: Semantics, Hypothesis Testing, Models, Syntax
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Wing, Clara S. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1990
Five first grade language-impaired children were trained on the phonological and perceptual components of the retrieval process, segmenting words, manipulating word segments, and forming visual and auditory images. The children improved in naming untrained pictures, but five children whose training focused on semantic associations and organization…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Handicaps