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Morford, Jill P.; Wilkinson, Erin; Villwock, Agnes.; Pinar, Pilar; Kroll, Judith F. – Cognition, 2011
Deaf bilinguals for whom American Sign Language (ASL) is the first language and English is the second language judged the semantic relatedness of word pairs in English. Critically, a subset of both the semantically related and unrelated word pairs were selected such that the translations of the two English words also had related forms in ASL. Word…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Translation, Deafness, American Sign Language
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Braisby, Nick; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Argues that discoveries concerning the essential properties of whole categories of word concepts are critical to essentialist intuitions. Reviews studies demonstrating that words and concepts are not used in accordance with essentialism, concluding that since essentialism is not vindicated by ordinary word use, it fails to undermine the cognitive…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Psychology, Intuition, Language Processing
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Vigliocco, Gabriella; Vinson, David P.; Siri, Simona – Cognition, 2005
Italian speakers were asked to name pictures of actions (e.g. "bere", to drink). Pictures were presented at the same time as distracter words that were semantically related or unrelated to the picture names, and were of the same or different grammatical class (verbs or nouns). Half of the participants named the actions as verbs in citation form,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, Italian, Pictorial Stimuli