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Dissociating word frequency and age of acquisition: The Klein effect revived (and reversed). [PDF]
, 2006 The Klein effect (G. S. Klein, 1964) refers to the finding that high-frequency words produce greater interference in a color-naming task than low-frequency words.
Barry, Christopher, Dewhurst, Stephen A.
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Risky Sex and HIV Acquisition Among HIV Serodiscordant Couples in Zambia, 2002-2012: What Does Alcohol Have To Do With It? [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper we evaluate the effects of heavy alcohol consumption on sexual behavior, HIV acquisition, and antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation in a longitudinal open cohort of 1929 serodiscordant couples in Lusaka, Zambia from 2002 to ...
Allen, Susan +12 more
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Language Mixing in the Nominal Phrase: Implications of a Distributed Morphology Perspective
Languages, 2018 This paper investigates a pattern found in Spanish–English mixed language corpora whereby it is common to switch from a Spanish determiner to an English noun (e.g., la house, ‘the house’), but rare to switch from an English determiner to a Spanish noun ...
Michèle Burkholder
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Викладання мов у вищих навчальних закладах освіти на сучасному етапі: Міжпредметні зв'язки, 2023 The paper presents a comparative analysis of various groups of data (language acquisition speed, quality of language acquisition, comparative acquisition efficiency depending on the period of exposure, adult-child, and younger-children versus older ...
L. Chernovaty
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Languages, 2019 Many previous studies have found that adult heritage speakers exhibit significant variability in their production and comprehension of mood morphology in Spanish.
David Giancaspro
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Confounds and Consequences in Geotagged Twitter Data [PDF]
, 2015 Twitter is often used in quantitative studies that identify geographically-preferred topics, writing styles, and entities. These studies rely on either GPS coordinates attached to individual messages, or on the user-supplied location field in each ...
Eisenstein, Jacob +1 more
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Frontiers in Communication, 2017 Previous research found that iconicity—the motivated correspondence between word form and meaning—contributes to expressive vocabulary acquisition. We present two new experiments with two different databases and with novel analyses to give a detailed ...
Dominic W. Massaro, Marcus Perlman
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The effects of age-of-acquisition and frequency-of-occurrence in visual word recognition: Further evidence from the Dutch language [PDF]
, 2000 It has been claimed that the frequency eOEect in visual word naming is an artefact of age-of-acquisition: Words are named faster not because they are encountered more often in texts, but because they have been acquired earlier. In a series of experiments
Brysbaert, Marc +2 more
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Collection of age of acquisition ratings for over 5,000 Japanese words
Frontiers in Language SciencesThe age of acquisition (AoA) refers to the age at which an individual learns specific items or words. Research on word recognition has shown that items with lower AoA—those acquired earlier—can be processed more quickly and accurately.
Masaya Mochizuki, Naoto Ota
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Dynamic Language Network in Early and Late Cantonese–Mandarin Bilinguals
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The brain representation of language in bilinguals is sculptured by several factors, such as age of acquisition (AoA) and proficiency level (PL) in second language.
Xiaojin Liu +7 more
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