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Gerken, LouAnn; Quam, Carolyn; Goffman, Lisa – Language Learning and Development, 2019
Beginning with the classic work of Shepard, Hovland, & Jenkins (1961), Type II visual patterns (e.g., exemplars are large white squares OR small black triangles) have held a special place in investigations of human learning. Recent research on Type II "linguistic" patterns has shown that they are relatively frequent across languages…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Patterns, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
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Gladfelter, Allison; Goffman, Lisa – Language Learning and Development, 2013
The goal of this study was to investigate the effects of prosodic stress patterns and semantic depth on word learning. Twelve preschool-aged children with typically developing speech and language skills participated in a word learning task. Novel words with either a trochaic or iambic prosodic pattern were embedded in one of two learning…
Descriptors: Intonation, Phonology, Semantics, Vocabulary Development