Age of Acquisition of Personality Terms: Implications for Personality Theory [PDF]
Analysis of the age of acquisition (AoA) of personality terms represents a genetic method for the study of the individual personality lexicon and offers a potential alternative to correlational analysis for identifying the fundamental personality ...
Eka Roivainen
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Corpus-based age of word acquisition: Does it support the validity of adult age-of-acquisition ratings? [PDF]
Age of acquisition (AoA) is presumed to reflect the age or relative order in which words are learned, but is often measured using adult ratings or adult-reported observations and might thus reflect more about the adult language than about the acquisition
Filip Smolík, Maroš Filip
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Age of Acquisition and Allophony in Spanish-English Bilinguals [PDF]
This study examines age of acquisition (AoA) in Spanish-English bilinguals’ phonetic and phonological knowledge of /l/ in English and Spanish. In English, the lateral approximant /l/ varies in darkness by context (based on the second formant [F2] and the
Jessica A Barlow
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Age-of-acquisition effects in semantic processing tasks. [PDF]
In two experiments, we examined whether word age-of-acquisition (AoA) is a reliable predictor of processing times in semantic tasks. In the first task, participants were asked to say the first associate that came to mind when they saw a stimulus word ...
Brysbaert, Marc +2 more
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Age of acquisition predicts rate of lexical evolution [PDF]
The processes taking place during language acquisition are proposed to influence language evolution. However, evidence demonstrating the link between language learning and language evolution is, at best, indirect, constituting studies of laboratory-based
Monaghan, Padraic
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The Age Factor Revisited: Timing in Acquisition Interacts With Age of Onset in Bilingual Acquisition [PDF]
In this paper, we investigate whether timing in monolingual acquisition interacts with age of onset and input effects in child bilingualism. Six different morpho-syntactic and semantic phenomena acquired early, late or very late are considered, with ...
Petra Schulz, Angela Grimm
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Acquisition Strategies: Challenges of Digital Age
The article focuses on the process of library acquisition at the CSL of Karazin University in the context of increasing digital media influence and revaluation of library in social and cultural life.
Huzhva Alla
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The Effect of Age of Acquisition on Age-appropriate Language Use [PDF]
This paper details a pilot experiment used as a preliminary study on the effect of age of acquisition on the use of Japanese by advanced learners. The study compares students who began learning Japanese during high school to those who began learning ...
Rosenberg, Amy
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EMERGENCE OF URDU SPATIAL PREPOSITIONS TO ASSESS SYNTACTICAL IMPAIRMENTS IN PAKISTANI CHILDREN
Background: Urdu syntax is diverse in nature and does not relate to parameters established for English syntax in many ways. Speech-Language Pathologists’ (SLPs) assessments based on Ages of Acquisition (AoA) of spatial prepositions cannot be standardized
Faseeha Shafqat +4 more
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Bilingual Development and Age of Acquisition
Arturo E. Hernandez
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