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Smith, Linda B.; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Examined three-year-old children's ability to generalize novel words to new instances. Suggested that children's similarity judgments and feature selection in name generalization are guided by nonstrategic attentional processes that are minimally influenced by new conceptual information. Proposed that these findings may explain the extraordinary…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Generalization
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Kennison, Shelia M. – Cognition, 2005
The research investigated the time course of integrative semantic processing during sentence processing. Reading time was measured on sentences containing an NP composed of an adjective and a noun whose combined meaning was plausible or anomalous (Experiment 1) or was typical or atypical (Experiment 2). The noun in the NP was either plural or…
Descriptors: Semantics, Sentence Structure, Nouns, Language Processing
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Yamada, Jun – Cognition, 2004
Do different L1 (first language) writing systems differentially affect word identification in English as a second language (ESL)? Wang, Koda, and Perfetti [Cognition 87 (2003) 129] answered yes by examining Chinese students with a logographic L1 background and Korean students with an alphabetic L1 background for their phonological and orthographic…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, English (Second Language), Language Processing, Second Language Learning
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Cutler, Anne; Fodor, Jerry A. – Cognition, 1979
Reaction time to detect a phoneme target in a sentence was faster when the target-containing word formed part of the semantic focus of the sentence. Sentence understanding was facilitated by rapid identification of focused information. Active search for accented words can be interpreted as a search for semantic focus. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Adults, Higher Education, Linguistic Performance, Listening Comprehension
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Wang, Min; Koda, Keiko; Perfetti, Charles A. – Cognition, 2003
Examined Korean and Chinese college-level ESL learners for relative reliance on phonological and orthographic processing in English word identification. Found that Korean, but not Chinese, students made more false positive errors in judging stimuli that were homophones to category exemplars than in judging spelling controls. Chinese students made…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Wimmer, Heinz; Goswami, Usha – Cognition, 1994
Groups of seven- to nine-year olds learning to read in English and German were given three types of reading tasks. Whereas reading time and error rates in numeral and number word reading were very similar across the two orthographies, the German children showed a big advantage in reading the nonsense words, suggesting adoption of different…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Toro, Juan M.; Sinnett, Scott; Soto-Faraco, Salvador – Cognition, 2005
We addressed the hypothesis that word segmentation based on statistical regularities occurs without the need of attention. Participants were presented with a stream of artificial speech in which the only cue to extract the words was the presence of statistical regularities between syllables. Half of the participants were asked to passively listen…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Word Recognition, Artificial Speech, Hypothesis Testing
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Kobayashi, Harumi – Cognition, 1998
Examined whether 2-year-olds can learn a novel part name of an unfamiliar object when adult demonstrates action upon object. Asked 24 Japanese 2-year-olds to choose referent for a whole object and part of the object in forced choice tests. Found that young children are able to override whole object assumption when actions of parts of objects are…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Correlation
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Stadthagen-Gonzalez, Hans; Bowers, Jeffrey S.; Damian, Markus F. – Cognition, 2004
Three experiments assessed the contributions of age-of-acquisition (AoA) and frequency to visual word recognition. Three databases were created from electronic journals in chemistry, psychology and geology in order to identify technical words that are extremely frequent in each discipline but acquired late in life. In Experiment 1, psychologists…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Experiments, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
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