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Direct linkStadthagen-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
