The influence of clustering coefficient on word-learning: how groups of similar sounding words facilitate acquisition
dc.contributor.author | Goldstein, Rutherford | |
dc.contributor.author | Vitevitch, Michael S. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-09T19:17:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-06-09T19:17:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-11-18 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Goldstein, Rutherford, and Michael S. Vitevitch. "The Influence of Clustering Coefficient on Word-learning: How Groups of Similar Sounding Words Facilitate Acquisition." Frontiers in Psychology Front. Psychol. 5 (2014): n. pag. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01307. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18056 | |
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dc.description.abstract | Clustering coefficient, C, measures the extent to which neighbors of a word are also neighbors of each other, and has been shown to influence speech production, speech perception, and several memory-related processes. In this study we examined how C influences word-learning. Participants were trained over three sessions at 1-week intervals, and tested with a picture-naming task on nonword-nonobject pairs. We found an advantage for novel words with high C (the neighbors of this novel word are likely to be neighbors with each other), but only after the 1-week retention period with no additional exposures to the stimuli. The results are consistent with the spreading-activation network-model of the lexicon proposed by Chan and Vitevitch (2009). The influence of C on various language-related processes suggests that characteristics of the individual word are not the only things that influence processing; rather, lexical processing may also be influenced by the relationships that exist among words in the lexicon. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Frontiers | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright ©2014 Goldstein and Vitevitch. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Network science | en_US |
dc.subject | Word-learning | en_US |
dc.subject | Neighborhood density | en_US |
dc.subject | Clustering coefficient | en_US |
dc.title | The influence of clustering coefficient on word-learning: how groups of similar sounding words facilitate acquisition | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Goldstein, Rutherford | |
kusw.kuauthor | Vitevitch, Michael S. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Psychology | en_US |
kusw.oastatus | fullparticipation | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01307 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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