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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"lexical acquisition"”.
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Soft Constraints on Mapping Form to Meaning in Lexical Acquisition
… cognitive principles at work during language acquisition. In support of this proposition, the first two experiments present findings demonstrating that children disprefer learning a different, unrelated meaning for a known word when that word is used in a linguistic context that fails to bias …
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Learning with Laura: investigating the effects of a pedagogical agent on Spanish lexical acquisition
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of an animated pedagogical agent on Spanish vocabulary learning. Furthermore, the study examined learners’ reactions and attitudes towards the presence of the pedagogical agent in a web-based environment, as well as how learners used the …
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The Effects of Sentence Writing as Semantic Elaboration on the Allocation of Processing Resources and Second Language Lexical Acquisition
… order were blocking variables. Number of lexical items produced (score) was the dependent variable. Results indicated a negative effect for sentence writing on lexical items produced, suggesting that semantic processing can inhibit form learning by exhausting processing resources that …
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Taboo lexeme conditioning and obscenities in American English
… and sociological conditioning required during lexical acquisition for a native speaker to treat or experience certain lexemes as highly taboo. Taboo words differentiate both neurologically from non-emotional or non-taboo lexemes, and lexically person to person, in at least 4 ways: 1) they …
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Vídeos no ensino e aprendizado de vocabulário em língua inglesa : uma abordagem léxico-visual
… the research is based on studies which focus on lexical acquisition as a crucial aspect in the process of foreign language acquisition. The approach of the study combines the lexical dimension and the multimodal perspective. The latter points to the growing importance of multimedia learning, in a …
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Foreign Language Acquisition among Children with Down Syndrome: A Precedent Study for Christian Schools
… and to measure the receptive and expressive lexical acquisition of Spanish as a foreign language in students with Down syndrome. In the first phase, students underwent a six-week Spanish intervention. In the second phase vocabulary assessments based off of the Spanish intervention curriculum …
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Foreign Language Acquisition Among Children With Down Syndrome: A Precedent Study for Christian Schools
… and to measure the receptive and expressive lexical acquisition of Spanish as a FL in students with DS. In the first phase, students underwent a six-week Spanish intervention. In the second phase, vocabulary assessments based off of the Spanish intervention curriculum were developed, and in …
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The Phonetic Specificity of British English-Learning Infants’ Word Form Recognition in Their First Year of Life
… in speech perception: a consonant bias for lexical processing and a vowel bias for syntactic/prosodic processing (Nespor et al., 2003). Research in adults has consistently demonstrated that consonants have a privileged role in various lexical-level experiments across most languages. However, …
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The analysis and acquisition of proper names for robust text understanding
… text. Such an approach side-steps the problem of lexical coverage, by allowing a text processing system to use the very text it is analysing to construct lexical and knowledge base entries for unknown Proper Names as it encounters them. The information acquired on unknown Proper Names goes …
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Cross-Linguistic Influences on English Loanword Learnability in the Japanese Context
… non-loanwords, which implied that the accurate acquisition of English semantic knowledge of loanwords was impeded by Japanese L1 lexical knowledge. The results of the multiple regressions indicated that the only substantial predictor of lexical acquisition for both loanwords and non-loanwords in …
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Der Gebrauch lexikalischer Erwerbsbeschränkungen bei Kindern mit Williams-Beuren-Syndrom
… Alter untersucht werden. Dazu werden zwei lexical constraints untersucht, die Markman (1989) für den ungestörten Lexikonerwerb postuliert. Whole object constraint (WOC): Das Kind nimmt an, dass sich ein unfamiliäres Wort auf ein ganzes Objekt bezieht. Mutual exclusivity constraint (MEC): …