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Direct linkBowers, Jeffrey S.; Davis, Colin J.; Hanley, Derek A. – Cognition, 2005
We assessed the impact of visual similarity on written word identification by having participants learn new words (e.g. BANARA) that were neighbours of familiar words that previously had no neighbours (e.g. BANANA). Repeated exposure to these new words made it more difficult to semantically categorize the familiar words. There was some evidence of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Word Recognition, Semantics
