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Phonological acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese: Ages of customary production, acquisition and mastery

International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
AbstractBackground   AimsTo describe typical phonological development of Brazilian Portuguese (BP)‐speaking children, considering the following parameters: age of customary production, acquisition and mastery.Methods & ProceduresData were collected from 857 children aged between 3 years and 8 years 11 months with typical language and speech ...
Marizete Ilha Ceron, Simone Nicolini De Simoni, Márcia Keske‐Soares   +2 more
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Age of acquisition and lexical processing

Visual Cognition, 2006
Following a brief history of age of acquisition (AoA) research and consideration of measures of AoA, this review examines AoA effects in lexical processing tasks (such as object naming, word reading, and word recognition in the lexical decision task), and in object recognition and semantic processing tasks.
Johnston, Robert A, Barry, Christopher
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R&D in the Mergers and Acquisitions Age

Nursing Management (Springhouse), 1999
Learn about an emerging shift in the way research and development (R&D) is funded and the implications of that shift for health care information technology, product innovation, and delivery.
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Age of acquisition for naming and knowing: A new hypothesis

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2006
This paper reports an investigation into the age of acquisition of object names and object knowledge in a cross-sectional study of 288 children aged between 3 years 7 months and 11 years 6 months, comprising equal numbers of boys and girls. The objects belonged to four categories: animals, fruit and vegetables, implements, and vehicles.
Funnell, Elaine, Hughes, Diana, Woodcock, Jayne   +2 more
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Age and second language acquisition

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2001
The idea that there is an age factor in language development has long been — and continues to be — a hotly debated topic. This review begins by briefly revisiting some of the early perspectives on this issue; it goes on to sketch some of the relevant findings which emerged in the three decades following the onset in the late 1960s of serious empirical ...
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The validity of age‐of‐acquisition ratings

British Journal of Psychology, 1980
A number of recent studies have reported that words rated by adults as early acquired are retrieved more rapidly than words rated as later acquired. Age‐of‐acquisition ratings have been found to be highly reliable, but the validity of the ratings has been little investigated. This paper reports two validation studies.
K. J. Gilhooly, M. L. M. Gilhooly
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Age-at-acquisition and word recognition

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1978
Recent investigations have shown that the latency in object naming is affected by when in life the naming word is learned—the age-at-acquisition of the naming word. The present study investigated the effect of age-at-acquisition in the recognition of tachistoscopically presented words.
Arthur W. Lyons, Pallas Teer, Herbert Rubenstein   +2 more
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Age-related acquisition deficits and activity in rats

Neuroscience Letters, 1976
Spontaneous motor activity and physically undemanding conditioned suppression of drinking behavior were assessed in rats of 3, 12, 18 or 30 months (M) age. Initial spontaneous motor activity of 12 M rats was as low as that of 30 M rats and both were significantly lower than that of 3 M rats.
Wolthuis, O.L., Knook, D.L., Nickolson, V.J.   +2 more
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Age Differences in the Acquisition and Extinction of the GSR

Journal of Gerontology, 1960
J, BOTWINICK, C, KORNETSKY
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The Age of Acquisition: New Crime

2012
The notion of instant gratification/acquisition as a motivation for crime (as opposed to careful, methodical planning) is hardly a new one, and while modern instances of the phenomenon (both in the cinema and the society which it reflects) are generally ascribed to the Thatcher era and its celebration of entitlement values throughout the country, it is
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