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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"word learning"”.
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SES-RELATED DIFFERENCES IN WORD LEARNING: EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE INHIBITION AND WORD LEARNING
… syntactic processing, cognitive inhibition, and word learning. 38 4-5-year-olds from higher- and lower-SES backgrounds 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 …
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Early word learning through communicative inference
How do children learn their first words? Do they do it by gradually accumulating information about the co-occurrence of words and their referents over time, or are words learned via quick social inferences linking what speakers are looking at, pointing to, and talking about? Both of these …
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Using music to facilitate infant word learning
Previous studies on infant word-object learning suggest that infants as young as 6-months of age are capable of learning word-object relationships when labeled by their mother (Matayaho & Gogate, 2008). Yet, the unexplored topic that music could influence infants' learning led to the conduction of …
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Individual differences in rural children's video word learning
… between young children's ability to learn words from videos and individual difference factors such as their previous experience with videos, location (i.e. rural vs. non-rural), household income, maternal education, and receptive language skills. Preschool-aged children between the ages of …
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Intact Statistical Word Learning in Autism Spectrum Disorders
… of these deficits is poorly understood. Implicit learning appears potentially relevant to language development, particularly in speech segmentation, which relies on sensitivity to the transitional probabilities between speech sounds. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between …
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Assessing Word Learning: The Use of Dynamic Measures
The dynamic assessment of word learning was less influenced by environmental factors than the static vocabulary measures; however, the data also revealed a more complicated outcome. Differences emerged between the participants in the high-risk, low-risk and language disability groups, not just on …
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A semantics based computational model for word learning
… of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) to provide learning benefits to children. However, before providing new content, an ITS must assess a child's existing knowledge. Several studies have shown that children learn new words by forming semantic relationships with words they already know. Human …
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Syntactic adaptation and word learning across contexts and development
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Pragmatic word learning in monolingual and bilingually exposed children
… failures and an increased amount of word forms to acquire. Despite this, and a lesser ability to rely on mutual exclusivity, bilingual children are able to quickly acquire a similar, and often greater vocabulary than their monolingual peers (De Houwer, Bornstein, & Putnick, 2014; …
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Speech Production Effects on Word Learning and Memorization in Children
… the impact of speech production on memory and learning in children, by investigating the Production Effect and the Reverse Production Effect. In the Production Effect, a memory advantage is observed for items that are produced aloud compared to items studied under other actions, such as reading …
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Informing Vocabulary Interventions using Principles from the Science of Word Learning
… the translation of knowledge from the science of word learning to literacy research may be one way to increase the effectiveness of vocabulary instruction (Hassinger-Das et al., 2017). The current study is a vocabulary intervention for preschoolers that employs, and expands upon, principles from …
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Word learning strategies in early childhood : mutual exclusivity across language backgrounds
Despite the challenging and ambiguous nature of word learning, infants and young children successfully learn new words at a rapid pace. As most research has focused on the word learning strategies used by monolingual English-speaking children, less is known about how bilingual children manage …
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The EIIOS Task: Executive Function and Word Learning at 18-months
… acquisition was assessed using a real-time word learning task as well as a parent report measure of vocabulary size (MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Words and Sentences Version). Contrary to expectations, very few statistically significant associations were found between …
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Robots as language users: a computational model for pragmatic word learning
… these systems have focused on modeling grounded word learning through statistical mappings between various sensor modalities, such as speech-to-vision or speech-to-motor control. However, the entire body of such systems has only been able to capture a tiny fraction of the developmental robustness …
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The use of word-learning principles in young monolingual and bilingual children
… within a language, and were tested on their learning of the labels. Bilinguals were also administered a similar task in which mutual exclusivity was violated across languages. An assessment of the bilingual children's vocabulary production was undertaken using the MacArthur Communicative …
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The effect of phonological working memory on children's Chinese spoken word learning
… predict their ability to learn Chinese spoken words. Standard Chinese (Mandarin) is considered in this study and thus both terms (Chinese and Mandarin) will be used interchangeably. Participants included a total of 32 fourth grade American children who spoke English as a first language and …
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Semantic spaces : behavior, language and word learning in the Human Speechome corpus
… analyze the inherent "spatiality" of individual words. A surprising connection is demonstrated between the uniqueness of a word's spatial distribution and how early it is learned by the child.
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Audiovisual Integration During Novel Word Learning Among School-Aged Children with Cochlear Implants
… not well understood. This study examined novel word learning across two tasks, AV and AO, and sought to answer the following questions: (1) How does access to AV information impact novel word learning success for children with CIs and children with normal hearing (NH) listening to normal and …
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