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Cholin, Joana; Dell, Gary S.; Levelt, Willem J. M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
We investigated the role of syllables during speech planning in English by measuring syllable-frequency effects. So far, syllable-frequency effects in English have not been reported. English has poorly defined syllable boundaries, and thus the syllable might not function as a prominent unit in English speech production. Speakers produced either…
Descriptors: Syllables, English, Articulation (Speech), Language Processing
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Ozcaliskan, Seyda; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
At the one-word stage children use gesture to "supplement" their speech ("eat" + point at cookie), and the onset of such supplementary gesture-speech combinations predicts the onset of two-word speech ("eat cookie"). Gesture thus signals a child's readiness to produce two-word constructions. The question we ask here…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Linguistics, Language Processing, Language Acquisition
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Newman, Rochelle S.; German, Diane J. – Language and Speech, 2005
This study investigated how lexical access in naming tasks (picture naming, naming to open-ended sentences, and naming to category exemplars) might be influenced by different lexical factors during adolescence and adulthood. Participants included 1075 individuals, ranging in age from 12 to 83 years. Lexical factors examined included word frequency…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Processing, Age Differences, Adolescents