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Kelly, Spencer D.; McDevitt, Tara; Esch, Megan – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Recent research in psychology and neuroscience has demonstrated that co-speech gestures are semantically integrated with speech during language comprehension and development. The present study explored whether gestures also play a role in language learning in adults. In Experiment 1, we exposed adults to a brief training session presenting novel…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Nonverbal Communication, Semantics
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Baayen, R. Harald – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1994
Lexical statistics and a production experiment gauge the extent to which the linguistic notion of morphological productivity is relevant for psycholinguistic theories of speech production in languages such as Dutch. Lexical statistics show that new Dutch words are created often enough to make such theories of speech production theoretically…
Descriptors: Dutch, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages)
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Gaskell, M. Gareth; Marslen-Wilson, William D. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Presents a distributed connectionist model of the perception of spoken words, employing speech representation that combines lexical and abstract phonological information, with lexical access as a direct mapping on this distributed representation. The article examines the integration of partial cues to phonological identity, showing that the model…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Data Analysis, Linguistic Theory
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Garrod, Simon; and Clark, Aileen – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1993
Analysis of a large corpus (80 pairs of speakers) of 7-12 year olds suggests that 2 principles underlie the development of dialogue coordination skills. The seven to eight year olds establish a limited common dialogue lexicon, whereas older speakers show evidence of deep coordination processes aimed at establishing mutual intelligibility of a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, College Students