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Arunachalam, Sudha; Leddon, Erin M.; Song, Hyun-joo; Lee, Yoonha; Waxman, Sandra R. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2013
Research on early word learning reveals that verbs present a unique challenge. While English-acquiring 24-month-olds can learn novel verbs and extend them to new scenes, they perform better in rich linguistic contexts (when novel verbs appear with lexicalized noun phrases naming the event participants) than in sparser linguistic contexts…
Descriptors: Verbs, Korean, Language Acquisition, Toddlers
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Moss, Helen E.; McCormick, Samantha F.; Tyler, Lorraine K. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Investigated the time course of activation of the mental representations of word meanings in a series of three cross-modal priming experiments. The study interprets the data with respect to both localist and distributed implementations of the cohort model. Results indicate that if early competition among simultaneously activated meanings exists,…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Error Analysis (Language), Language Processing, Language Research