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Direct linkNamy, Laura L. – Language Learning and Development, 2012
This paper evaluates the proposal that general associative mechanisms underlie the earliest stages of word learning but that these same general mechanisms, operating over language input, enable children to identify domain-specific cues that ultimately help to constrain word learning, rendering children more sophisticated language users. As a…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Vocabulary Development, Cues, Linguistic Input
Storkel, Holly L.; Adlof, Suzanne M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 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 multiple measures both during and after learning. Method: Thirty-six preschool children were exposed to 10 nonobjects, varying in…
Descriptors: Semantics, Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
