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Storkel, Holly L.; Lee, Su-Yeon – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
The goal of this research was to disentangle effects of phonotactic probability, the likelihood of occurrence of a sound sequence, and neighbourhood density, the number of phonologically similar words, in lexical acquisition. Two-word learning experiments were conducted with 4-year-old children. Experiment 1 manipulated phonotactic probability…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Learning, Phonemes
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Storkel, Holly L. – Journal of Child Language, 2002
Previous evidence suggests that the structure of similarity neighbourhoods in the developing mental lexicon may differ from that of the fully developed lexicon. The similarity relationships used to organize words into neighbourhoods was investigated in 20 pre-school children (age 3;7 to 5;11) using a two alternative forced-choice classification…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Cognitive Processes, Child Development, Preschool Children