Word & Sound Learning Lab Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Learning New Words II: Phonotactic Probability in Verb-learning
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2003)Phonotactic probability, a measure of the likelihood of occurrence of a sound sequence, appears to facilitate noun learning (H. L. Storkel, 2001). Nouns and verbs, however, tend to differ in rate of acquisition, indicating ... -
The lexicon and phonology: Interactions in language acquisition
(Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2002)The purpose of this paper is to underscore the importance of the link between lexical and phonological acquisition by considering learning by children beyond the 50-word stage and by applying cognitive models of spoken ... -
Clinical Issues: Understanding Word Learning by Preschool Children: Insights From Multiple Tasks, Stimulus Characteristics, and Error Analysis
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The Developing Mental Lexicon of Children With Specific Language Impairment
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Interactive Book Reading to Accelerate Word Learning by Kindergarten Children With Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
(Word & Sound Learning Lab, University of Kansas, 2016-02)This collection consists of clinical and methodological resources used by the Kindergarten Children Acquiring Words through Storybook Reading (KAW Story) clinical trial (DC012824) of the Word and Sound Learning Lab at the ... -
Investigating a Multimodal Intervention for Children with Limited Expressive Vocabularies Associated with Autism
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2015)Purpose: To investigate a new intervention package aimed at increasing expressive word learning by school-age children with autism who have limited expressive vocabularies. This pilot investigation was intended to show ... -
The Influence of Word Characteristics on the Vocabulary of Children with Cochlear Implants
(Oxford University Press, 2015)The goal of this study was to explore the effects of phonotactic probability, word length, word frequency, and neighborhood density on the words known by children with cochlear implants (CIs) varying in vocabulary outcomes ... -
Online Learning From Input Versus Offline Memory Evolution in Adult Word Learning: Effects of Neighborhood Density and Phonologically Related Practice
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2014)Purpose. This study investigates adult word learning to determine how neighborhood density and practice across phonologically-related training sets influence on-line learning from input during training versus off-line ... -
A corpus of consonant-vowel-consonant real words and nonwords: Comparison of phonotactic probability, neighborhood density, and consonant age of acquisition
(Springer Verlag, 2013)A corpus of 5,765 consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) sequences was compiled, and phonotactic probability and neighborhood density based on both child and adult corpora were computed. This corpus of CVCs, provided as supplementary ... -
Grammatical treatment and specific language impairment: Neighbourhood density & third person singular –s
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)The purpose of this study was to test the effect of manipulating verb neighbourhood density in treatment targeting the third person singular lexical affix. Using a single-subject experimental design, 6 pre-schoolers with ... -
The effect of incremental changes in phonotactic probability and neighborhood density on word learning by preschool children
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2013)Purpose. Phonotactic probability or neighborhood density have predominately been defined using gross distinctions (i.e., low vs. high). The current studies examined the influence of finer changes in probability (Experiment ... -
The Effect of Homonymy on Learning Correctly Articulated Versus Misarticulated Words
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2013)Purpose The goal of the current study was to examine the effect of homonymy (learning a second meaning for a known word form vs. learning a novel meaning and novel word form) and articulation accuracy (IN vs. OUT sounds) ... -
Examining the acquisition of phonological word-forms with computational experiments
(SAGE Publications, 2013)It has been hypothesized that known words in the lexicon strengthen newly formed representations of novel words, resulting in words with dense neighborhoods being learned more quickly than words with sparse neighborhoods. ... -
The influence of part-word phonotactic probability/neighborhood density on word learning by preschool children varying in expressive vocabulary
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)The goal of this study was to examine the influence of part-word phonotactic probability/neighborhood density on word learning by preschool children with normal vocabularies that varied in size. Ninety-eight children (age ... -
The influence of neighborhood density and word frequency on phoneme awareness in 2nd and 4th grades
(Elsevier, 2011)Purpose The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that two lexical characteristics – neighborhood density and word frequency – interact to influence performance on phoneme awareness tasks. Methods Phoneme ... -
The Independent Effects of Phonotactic Probability and Neighborhood Density on Lexical Acquisition by Preschool Children
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)The goal of this research was to disentangle effects of phonotactic probability, the likelihood of occurrence of a sound sequence, and neighbourhood density, the number of phonologically similar words, in lexical acquisition. ... -
A Cross-Sectional Comparison of the Effects of Phonotactic Probability and Neighborhood Density on Word Learning by Preschool Children
(Elsevier, 2010)Two experiments examined the effects of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density on word learning by 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children. Nonwords orthogonally varying in probability and density were taught with learning ... -
An on-line calculator to compute phonotactic probability and neighborhood density based on child corpora of spoken American English
(Springer Verlag, 2010)An on-line calculator was developed (http://www.bncdnet.ku.edu/cml/info_ccc.vi) to compute phonotactic probability, the likelihood of occurrence of a sound sequence, and neighborhood density, the number of phonologically ... -
Word learning by children with phonological delays: Differentiating effects of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density
(Elsevier, 2010)This study examined the ability of 20 preschool children with functional phonological delays and 34 age- and vocabulary-matched typical children to learn words differing in phonotactic probability (i.e., the likelihood of ...