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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"novel words"”.
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CAN TODDLERS LEARN NOVEL WORDS FROM EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS?
… at least six times over two weeks, learned more novel words from the DVD than infants in the control condition. The current study was unique in three ways. The present study used a DVD very similar to an actual Baby Einstein DVD and the study used repeat exposure to explore whether showing the …
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The Influence Of Brief Mindfulness Exercise On Encoding Of Novel Words
… may be helpful in enhancing the encoding of novel semantic information. A Swahili-English word pair association task was used to examine whether engaging in a brief mindfulness exercise enhanced the encoding of Swahili-English word pairs, thus improving long-term recall. Participants …
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3- to 4-year-old children adapt to recent experience to learn novel words
… use linguistic context to infer the meaning of novel words, and they can also adjust their expectations about the current linguistic context based on recent linguistic input. Havron et al. (2019) were the first to show that preschool children can use recently adapted expectations about the usage …
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Learning new words: effects of meaning, memory consolidation, and sleep
Although encountering novel words in one's own language in adulthood is not an uncommon event, the relevant cognitive processes have become the target of systematic investigation only in recent years. This thesis addressed three main questions regarding word learning. The first was concerned with …
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Acoustic correlates of word stress in American English
… were determined using two-syllable real and novel words and specially constructed novel words with identical syllable compositions. The location of the high focal pitch accent within a declarative carrier phrase was varied using an innovative object naming task that allowed for a natural and …
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Context and Vocabulary Acquisition: An Eye Movement Investigation
… types of contextual information following novel words during the course of silent reading. The two types of contextual information were action context and categorical context. Two experiments were conducted, in which the context type was manipulated following novel or familiar target words …
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Change in the Adult Phonological Processing System by Learning Non -Adjacent Phonotactic Constraints From Brief Experience: An Experimental and Computational Study
… the speakers judge phonotactically legal novel words to be more grammatical than phonotactically illegal novel words. They also perceive the legal ones more quickly and accurately than the illegal ones. In addition, the experiments show that the effect of learning on perception is greater …
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Learning the meaning of new words: Behavioural and neuroimaging evidence
… tasks when participants were tested on the same novel words, but declined when they were tested on a different set of novel words, suggesting that performance only improved if mediated by a test instance. Experiment 8 was aimed at collecting semantic features from British speakers for 100 …
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Grammatical productivity in Mandarin resultative verb compounds
… language elicitation/priming tasks with real words, and novel word learning/testing tasks, and led to a comprehensive view of how different levels of grammatical productivity related to one another. The project also established the association between children’s grammatical productivity …
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Learning to read: Effects of memory consolidation on orthographic and lexical learning
… and has provided valuable insight into how novel spoken and written words are learned. Relatively little attention has focused on whether offline consolidation supports the learning and generalisation of novel orthographic knowledge. Meanwhile, laboratory-based approaches have proven …
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The Effect of Hearing Impairment on Word Processing of Infant- and Adult-Directed Speech
… how children with hearing loss (CHL) process words. The Emergent Coalition Model (ECM) of early word learning proposes that multiple cues (e.g., perceptual, social, linguistic) are used to facilitate word learning. Because hearing loss influences speech perception, different word learning …
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SES-RELATED DIFFERENCES IN WORD LEARNING: EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE INHIBITION AND WORD LEARNING
… completed a word-learning task, in which novel words were embedded in active and passive sentences. Critically, unlike the active sentences, all passive sentences required a syntactic revision. Measures of cognitive inhibition were obtained through a modified Stroop task. Results indicate …
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Optimizing lexical learning by manipulating phonological training
… phonological training environments on learning novel words in adulthood. Adults who learn non-native phonological categories are thought to utilize two main types of strategies. A reflective strategy involves developing explicit rules for categorizing sounds, whereas a reflexive strategy entails …
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Rhythmic Sensitivity and Developmental Language Disorder in Children
… difficulties of children with DLD from a novel perspective by considering the potential contribution made by differing levels of sensitivity to the rhythmic properties of language. Children with DLD have been shown to have reduced sensitivity to some of the acoustic cues present in speech …
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Socio-cultural Conventionality and Children’s Selective Learning
… they are also very selective when learning new words (Sabbagh & Henderson, 2013). Although many studies have shown children’s selectivity when learning words, still little is known about the motives behind children’s selectivity or the mechanisms by which this selectivity works. The major aim of …
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Reading words and reading minds: an investigation of the skills of children diagnosed with hyperlexia
… can access the semantic system and understand words they read as well as the manner in which they approach the learning of novel words (whether semantic cues help or hinder the learning of new words). Findings from the first set of questions leads to a further investigation of the subjects' …
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Wordify! Morphology Meets Ludology
… and activities based on the structure of English words, phrases, and sounds. Unlike other available computer word and language games, which typically fixate on spelling and whole-word identification, Wordify!TM is grounded in linguistic principles and is designed to teach these to the user. It has …
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Metacognitive development and the disambiguation effect in monolingual and bilingual children
… of another but familiar object as referent for a novel word. Theoretical considerations suggest this effect initially results from a lack of understanding perspective. Five studies were conducted in Scotland and Austria, involving 243 children between the ages of 2.5 and 6.5. Studies 1 to 3 …
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Towards a phoneme-based predictive communication aid for nonspeaking individuals
… communication systems effectively to<br/>compose novel words and messages in spontaneous conversation. To address this problem, previous research has proposed the use of phoneme-based communication systems, which enable users to access a limited set of spoken phonemes (i.e. speech sounds). By …
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Words and facts: children's fast mapping, retention and extension
… suggests that a pre-school child can link a novel word with its referent and retain this link up to 1 month later (e.g. Markson & Bloom, 1997). In 4 experiments, I investigated the retention of fast mapped novel words and facts after 1 week in 3- and 4-year-old children. In the fifth and …
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