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Arias-Trejo, Natalia; Angulo-Chavira, Armando Q.; Avila-Varela, Daniela S.; Chua-Rodriguez, Fernanda; Mani, Nivedita – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Research on the early lexical-semantic system has described how toddlers organize word representations based on semantic and phonological features. This study is a longitudinal investigation of the development of this organization during infancy. Middle-high socioeconomic status Mexican toddlers (n = 28, 15 female) were presented with a…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Semantics, Phonology, Mexicans
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Vainio, Seppo; Pajunen, Anneli; Häikiö, Tuomo – First Language, 2019
The current study examined how morpho-semantic processing of derivational morphology develops from later childhood through adolescence to adulthood in Finnish. Finnish is a synthetic language rich both in derivation and inflection. It has been suggested that children gradually acquire the ability to process morphologically complex word structures.…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Finno Ugric Languages, Semantics, Morphemes
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Singh, Leher – Child Development, 2014
The interconnectedness of bilingual memory remains a topic of great debate. Semantic priming provides a powerful methodological tool with which to investigate this issue in early bilingual toddlers. Semantic priming effects were investigated in 21 bilingual toddlers (2.5 years) within and across each of their languages. Results revealed the first…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Memory, Toddlers, Language Dominance
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Friedrich, Manuela; Friederici, Angela D. – Brain and Language, 2010
The relation between the maturation of brain mechanisms responsible for the N400 elicitation in the event-related brain potential (ERP) and the development of behavioral language skills was investigated in 12-month-old infants. ERPs to words presented in a picture-word priming paradigm were analyzed according to the infants' production and…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Semantics, Infants, Brain
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Pizzioli, Fabrizio; Schelstraete, Marie-Anne – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2011
The hypothesis indicating an overactivation of the lexico-semantic network in children with specific language impairment (SLI) was tested using an auditory pair-primed paradigm (PPP), where participants made a lexical-decision on the second word of a noun pair that could be semantically related, or not, to the first one. Though children with SLI…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Models, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages)
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Velez, Melinda; Schwartz, Richard G. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to contribute to the current understanding of how children with specific language impairment (SLI) organize their mental lexicons. The study examined semantic and phonological priming in children with and without SLI. Method: Thirteen children (7;0-11;3 [years;months]) with SLI and 13 age-matched children…
Descriptors: Intervals, Semantics, Language Impairments, Word Recognition