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Direct linkChang, Lucas M.; Deák, Gedeon O. – Cognitive Science, 2020
Children show a remarkable degree of consistency in learning some words earlier than others. What patterns of word usage predict variations among words in age of acquisition? We use distributional analysis of a naturalistic corpus of child-directed speech to create quantitative features representing natural variability in word contexts. We…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Young Children, Child Language, Context Effect
Bergen, Benjamin K.; Lindsay, Shane; Matlock, Teenie; Narayanan, Srini – Cognitive Science, 2007
There is mounting evidence that language comprehension involves the activation of mental imagery of the content of utterances (Barsalou, 1999; Bergen, Chang, & Narayan, 2004; Bergen, Narayan, & Feldman, 2003; Narayan, Bergen, & Weinberg, 2004; Richardson, Spivey, McRae, & Barsalou, 2003; Stanfield & Zwaan, 2001; Zwaan, Stanfield, & Yaxley, 2002).…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Verbs
