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Word & Sound Learning Lab Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Differentiating the effects of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density on vocabulary comprehension and production: A comparison of preschool children with versus without phonological delays
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2010)Purpose The purpose of this study was to differentiate the effect of phonotactic probability from that of neighborhood density on a vocabulary probe administered to preschool children with or without a phonological ... -
Learning from Input and Memory Evolution: Points of Vulnerability on a Pathway to Mastery in Word Learning
(Informa Healthcare, 2014)Word learning consists of at least two neurocognitive processes: learning from input during training and memory evolution during gaps between training sessions. Fine-grained analysis of word learning by normal adults ... -
Adult and Child Semantic Neighbors of the Kroll and Potter (1984) Nonobjects
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2009)Purpose The purpose was to determine the number of semantic neighbors, namely semantic set size, for 88 nonobjects (Kroll & Potter, 1984) and determine how semantic set size related to other measures and age. Method Data ... -
The effect of semantic set size on word learning by preschool children
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2009)Purpose The purpose was to determine whether semantic set size, a measure of the number of semantic neighbors, influenced word learning, and whether the influence of semantic set size was broad, showing effects on ... -
Developmental differences in the effects of phonological, lexical and semantic variables on word learning by infants
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)The influence of phonological (i.e. individual sounds), lexical (i.e. whole-word forms) and semantic (i.e. meaning) characteristics on the words known by infants age 1 ; 4 to 2 ; 6 was examined, using an existing database ... -
Differentiating Phonotactic Probability and Neighborhood Density in Adult Word Learning
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2006)Purpose The purpose of this study was to differentiate effects of phonotactic probability, the likelihood of occurrence of a sound sequence, and neighborhood density, the number of words that sound similar to a given ... -
Methods for Minimizing the Confounding Effects of Word Length in the Analysis of Phonotactic Probability and Neighborhood Density
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2004)Recent research suggests that phonotactic probability (the likelihood of occurrence of a sound sequence) and neighborhood density (the number of words phonologically similar to a given word) influence spoken language ... -
The Emerging Lexicon of Children With Phonological Delays
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2004)The effects of phonotactic constraints (i.e., the status of a sound as correctly or incorrectly articulated) and phonotactic probability (i.e., the likelihood of a sound sequence) on lexical acquisition have been investigated ... -
Learning New Words Phonotactic Probability in Language Development
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2001)Though the influences of syntactic and semantic regularity on novel word learning are well documented, considerably less is known about the influence of phono-logical regularities on lexical acquisition. The influence of ... -
Do children still pick and choose? The relationship between phonological knowledge and lexical acquisition beyond 50 words
(Taylor & Francis, 2004)Previous studies document an influence of phonological knowledge on word learning that differs across development. Specifically, children with expressive lexicons of fewer than 50 words learn words composed of IN sounds ... -
Individual differences in the influence of phonological characteristics on expressive vocabulary development by young children
(Cambridge University Press, 2006)The current study attempts to differentiate effects of phonotactic probability (i.e. the likelihood of occurrence of a sound sequence), neighbourhood density (i.e. the number of phonologically similar words), word frequency, ... -
The influence of known-word-frequency on the acquisition of new neighbors in adults: Evidence for exemplar representations in word-learning
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)Previous studies showed that a new word that is similar to many known words will be learned better than a new word that is similar to few known words (Storkel et al., 2006). In the present study we created novel words that ... -
Learning Vocabulary through Reading
(Speech Pathology Association of Australia, 2006)Children with early reading and vocabulary deficits often struggle in these areas across development. Although direct instruction is effective for teaching individual vocabulary words, it is time consuming, and may not be ... -
Using Nonword Repetition in Vocabulary Assessment
(Speech Pathology Association of Australia, 2006)Standardized vocabulary tests have been criticized for their cultural/experiential biases and insensitivity to word learning differences. This review discusses the utility of supplementing the diagnostic process with a ... -
Dynamic assessment and word learning
(Speech Pathology Association of Australia, 2006)Past studies indicate that standardized vocabulary tests may be insensitive to language impairments and may be culturally biased. Dynamic assessment may be used as an alternative or supplementary approach to measure a ... -
Teaching New Words to Children With Specific Language Impairment Using Interactive Book Reading
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Learning and Remembering New Words: Clinical Illustrations From Children With Specific Language Impairment
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Do children acquire dense neighborhoods? An investigation of similarity neighborhoods in lexical acquisition
(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2004-04)This study tests the claim that children acquire collections of phonologically similar word forms. namely, dense neighborhoods. Age of acquisition (AoA) norms were obtained front two databases: parent report of infant and ... -
A comparison of homonym and novel word learning: the role of phonotactic probability and word frequency
(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2005-11)This study compares homonym learning to novel word learning by three- to four-year-old children to determine whether homonyms are learned more rapidly or more slowly than novel words. In addition, the role of form ... -
Restructuring of similarity neighbourhoods in the developing mental lexicon
(Cambridge University Press, 2002-05)Previous evidence suggests that the structure of similarity neighbourhoods in the developing mental lexicon may differ from that of the fully developed lexicon. The similarity relationships used to organize words into ...