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Jonas Schäfer; Timo Reuter; Julia Karbach; Miriam Leuchter – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Problem-solving in early and middle childhood is of high relevance for cognitive developmental research and educational support. Previous research on science problem-solving has focussed on the process and strategies of children handling challenging tasks, but less on providing insights into the cognitive network that enables science…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Elementary School Students, Correlation, Task Analysis
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Felix Hao Wang; Meili Luo; Nan Li – Developmental Science, 2024
In word learning, learners need to identify the referent of words by leveraging the fact that the same word may co-occur with different sets of objects. This raises the question, what do children remember from "in the moment" that they can use for cross-situational learning? Furthermore, do children represent pictures of familiar animals…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Memory, Language Acquisition
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Caroline F. Rowland; Amy Bidgood; Gary Jones; Andrew Jessop; Paula Stinson; Julian M. Pine; Samantha Durrant; Michelle S. Peter – Language Learning, 2025
A strong predictor of children's language is performance on non-word repetition (NWR) tasks. However, the basis of this relationship remains unknown. Some suggest that NWR tasks measure phonological working memory, which then affects language growth. Others argue that children's knowledge of language/language experience affects NWR performance. A…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Language Skills
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Agnieszka Otwinowska – Second Language Research, 2024
Third language (L3) lexical acquisition is still underexplored. In this article I overview theoretical and empirical evidence on L3 lexical acquisition and the role of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in learning L3 words. I explain the mechanism of CLI as resulting from language co-activation in the multilingual learner's/user's mind.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Vocabulary Development
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de Diego-Lázaro, Beatriz – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Studies on multilingual word learning have focused on identifying a bilingual advantage over monolingual peers, paying little attention to the relationships between bilinguals' existing vocabulary size and novel word learning. This study compared monolingual and bilingual school-age children on word learning tasks in familiar and unfamiliar…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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Geffen, Susan; Curtin, Suzanne; Graham, Susan A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
By 12 months, English-learning infants have an awareness of the sound patterns of word forms that constitute acceptable labels for objects in their native language. In the following experiments, we replicated and extended previous findings that Canadian English-learning infants will not link function-like words with novel objects. Across three…
Descriptors: English, Infants, Language Acquisition, Play
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Mathée-Scott, Janine; Larson, Caroline; Venker, Courtney; Pomper, Ron; Edwards, Jan; Saffran, Jenny; Ellis Weismer, Susan – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
To efficiently learn new words, children use constraints such as mutual exclusivity (ME) to narrow the search for potential referents. The current study investigated the use of ME in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and neurotypical (NT) peers matched on nonverbal cognition. Thirty-two toddlers with ASD and 26 NT toddlers participated…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Vocabulary Development, Toddlers, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Cabiddu, Francesco; Bott, Lewis; Jones, Gary; Gambi, Chiara – Language Learning, 2023
Word segmentation is a crucial step in children's vocabulary learning. While computational models of word segmentation can capture infants' performance in small-scale artificial tasks, the examination of early word segmentation in naturalistic settings has been limited by the lack of measures that can relate models' performance to developmental…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Infants, Task Analysis, Phonemic Awareness
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Viridiana L. Benitez; Ye Li – Language Learning and Development, 2024
Cross-situational word learning, the ability to decipher word-referent links over multiple ambiguous learning events, has been documented across development and proposed to be key to vocabulary acquisition. However, this work has largely focused on learning from one-to-one structure, where each referent is consistently linked with a single label.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children, Young Children, Adults
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Paul Meara; Imma Miralpeix – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2025
This paper is part 5 of a series of workshops that examines the properties of some simple models of vocabulary networks. While previous workshops dealt with activating words in the network, this workshop focuses on vocabulary loss. We will simulate two possible ways of modelling attrition: (a) explicitly turning active words OFF, and (b) raising…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Workshops, Models, Networks
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Krethlow, Giulia; Fargier, Raphaël; Laganaro, Marina – Cognitive Science, 2020
The lexical-semantic organization of the mental lexicon is bound to change across the lifespan. Nevertheless, the effects of lexical-semantic factors on word processing are usually based on studies enrolling young adult cohorts. The current study aims to investigate to what extent age-specific semantic organization predicts performance in…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Semantics, Lexicology, Age Groups
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Hazrat, Mandana; Read, John – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
The Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH) is a framework for designing vocabulary-learning tasks which was proposed by Batia Laufer and Jan Hulstijn in 2001. It assumes that task effectiveness depends on three components induced by a task: a motivational component (need) and two cognitive components (search and evaluation). The hypothesis has been…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Vocabulary Development, Language Research, Evidence
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Lavigne, Cheryl S.; Tremblay, Kathryn A.; Binder, Katherine S. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
The goal of this study was to describe how underlying vocabulary knowledge manifests into vocabulary usage, and in turn, how usage predicts writing quality among adult basic education (ABE) learners. ABE learners were administered tasks that measured vocabulary knowledge, in the forms of both vocabulary breadth and depth. Participants were also…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Adult Basic Education, Correlation, Language Usage
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Altalhab, Sultan – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023
Although there is robust research on vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs), little is known about the strategies that learners use in pair work. Therefore, this study examines the VLSs employed by 40 Saudi undergraduate students whilst working in pair tasks. This study also investigates whether there is a relationship between using certain…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Learning Strategies, Undergraduate Students, Cooperative Learning
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Donnelly, Seamus; Kidd, Evan – Cognitive Science, 2021
There is consensus that the adult lexicon exhibits lexical competition. In particular, substantial evidence demonstrates that words with more phonologically similar neighbors are recognized less efficiently than words with fewer neighbors. How and when these effects emerge in the child's lexicon is less clear. In the current paper, we build on…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, English, Task Analysis
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