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Ramey, Christopher H.; Chrysikou, Evangelia G.; Reilly, Jamie – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
Word learning is a lifelong activity constrained by cognitive biases that people possess at particular points in development. Age of acquisition (AoA) is a psycholinguistic variable that may prove useful toward gauging the relative weighting of different phonological, semantic, and morphological factors at different phases of language acquisition…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Nouns, Vocabulary Development, Computational Linguistics
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Lipowski, Stacy L.; Merriman, William E. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2011
According to the dual criterion account of early linguistic judgment (Merriman & Lipko, 2008), preschool-aged children who possess more efficient object memory processes should also be more accurate judges of whether various objects have known names. In support of this claim, both the accuracy of object recognition and the speed of object…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Memory, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children