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Languages, 2023 While differences in the production and acceptability of aspectual inflectional morphology between Spanish–English heritage and monolingually raised speakers of Spanish have been argued to support incomplete acquisition approaches to heritage language ...
Gabriel Martínez Vera +5 more
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What affects second language vocabulary learning? Evidence from multivariate analysis
Frontiers in Education, 2023 IntroductionVocabulary acquisition is crucial in second language (L2) learning and can be affected by multi-variables. The fact that all these variables have typically been investigated separately (or, at best, in pairs) potentially obscures important ...
Danning Sun, Zihan Chen, Shanhua Zhu
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Semantic growth of morphological families in English [PDF]
Psihologija, 2013 This paper explores the question of when and how morphological families are formed in one’s mental lexicon, by analyzing age-of-acquisition norms to morphological families (e.g., booking, bookshelf, check book) and their shared morphemes (book).
Henry Regina, Kuperman Victor
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Individual and Sociolinguistic Differences in Language Background Predict Stroop Performance
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 To examine how differences in language experience and sociolinguistic context impact cognitive control, 146 Spanish-English bilingual participants were tested on a non-linguistic Stroop arrows task.
Max R. Freeman +3 more
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Isogloss, 2023 In monolingual (L1) acquisition, children produce target-like subject-verb agreement early in development in both Spanish (Grinstead 1998) and English (Guasti 2002). However, in heritage simultaneous bilinguals (2L1) and child second language acquirers (
Michele Goldin +2 more
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Autophagy Controls Acquisition of Aging Features in Macrophages [PDF]
Journal of Innate Immunity, 2015 Macrophages provide a bridge linking innate and adaptive immunity. An increased frequency of macrophages and other myeloid cells paired with excessive cytokine production is commonly seen in the aging immune system, known as ‘inflamm-aging'. It is presently unclear how healthy macrophages are maintained throughout life and what connects inflammation ...
Stranks, Amanda J +11 more
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Age of Acquisition, Ageing, and Verb Production: Normative and Experimental Data [PDF]
The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 2003 Young and old adults were shown pictured or written verbs and asked to name them as quickly as possible. Simultaneous multiple regression was used to investigate which of a set of potential variables predicted naming speed. Age of acquisition was found to be an important predictor of naming speed in both young and old adults, and for both word and ...
Morrison, Catriona M. +2 more
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Frontiers in Communication, 2019 Second language (L2) proficiency and age of acquisition (AoA) are important when examining L2 neural representation. However, they are potential confounds of each other and their relative importance remains unclear.
Tomasina M. Oh +6 more
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Effects of proficiency and age of language acquisition on working memory performance in bilinguals [PDF]
Psihologija, 2010 This study examined language proficiency and age of language acquisition influences on working memory performance in bilinguals. Bilingual subjects were administered reading span task in parallel versions for their first and second language.
Vejnović Dušan +2 more
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Order of acquisition in learning perceptual categories: a laboratory analogue of the age-of-acquisition effect? [PDF]
, 2008 In the age-of-acquisition (AoA) effect, an advantage for recognition and production is found for items learned early in life, as compared with items learned later.
Ellis, Andrew W., Stewart, Neil
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