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Can chunk size differences explain developmental changes in lexical learning?

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
In three experiments, we investigated Hebb repetition learning (HRL) differences between children and adults, as a function of the type of item (lexical vs. sub-lexical) and the level of item-overlap between sequences. In a first experiment, it was shown
Eleonore H.M. Smalle, Louisa eBogaerts, Morgane eSimonis, Wouter eDuyck, Michael P.A Page, Martin G. Edwards, Arnaud eSzmalec   +6 more
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Inclusion, Contrast and Polysemy in Dictionaries: The Relationship between Theory, Language Use and Lexicographic Practice [PDF]

, 2014
This paper explores the lexicographic representation of a type of polysemy that arises when the meaning of one lexical item can either include or contrast with the meaning of another, as in the case of dog/bitch, shoe/boot, finger/thumb and animal/bird ...
Adrienne, Adrienne, Adrienne, Adrienne, Anu Koskela, Becker, Becker, Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury, Boston, Boston, Bybee, Bybee, Church, Church, Collins, Collins, Collins COBUILD, Collins COBUILD, Croft, Croft, Cruse, Cruse, Davies, Davies, Davies, Davies, Geeraerts, Geeraerts, Geeraerts, Geeraerts, Grice, Grice, Haspelmath, Haspelmath, Hearst, Hearst, Horn, Horn, Huang, Huang, Ide, Ide, Jones, Jones, Justeson, Justeson, Kempson, Kempson, Langacker, Langacker, Longman, Longman, Lyons, Lyons, Manning, Manning, Mettinger, Mettinger, Mititelu, Mititelu, Murphy, Murphy, Oxford, Oxford, Oxford, Oxford, Oxford, Oxford, Quine, Quine, Rohdenburg, Rohdenburg, Rohdenburg, Rohdenburg, Traugott, Traugott, Tuggy, Tuggy, Zgusta, Zgusta, Zwicky, Zwicky   +82 more
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Item-Level Story Recall Predictors of Amyloid-Beta in Late Middle-Aged Adults at Increased Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
BackgroundStory recall (SR) tests have shown variable sensitivity to rate of cognitive decline in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) biomarkers. Although SR tasks are typically scored by obtaining a sum of items recalled, item-level analyses may ...
Kimberly D. Mueller, Kimberly D. Mueller, Kimberly D. Mueller, Lianlian Du, Davide Bruno, Tobey Betthauser, Bradley Christian, Bradley Christian, Bradley Christian, Sterling Johnson, Sterling Johnson, Sterling Johnson, Bruce Hermann, Bruce Hermann, Rebecca Langhough Koscik, Rebecca Langhough Koscik   +15 more
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Busting a myth with the Bayes Factor: Effects of letter bigram frequency in visual lexical decision do not reflect reading processes [PDF]

, 2017
Psycholinguistic researchers identify linguistic variables and assess if they affect cognitive processes. One such variable is letter bigram frequency, or the frequency with which a given letter pair co-occurs in an orthography.
Mulatti, Claudio, Schmalz, Xenia
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ERP measures of semantic richness: The case of multiple senses

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013
Semantic richness refers to the amount of semantic information that a lexical item possesses. An important measure of semantic richness is the number of related senses that a word has (e.g., TABLE meaning a piece of furniture, a table of contents, to lay
Vanessa eTaler, Vanessa eTaler, Shanna eKousaie, Rocio eLopez Zunini, Rocio eLopez Zunini   +4 more
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A role for the developing lexicon in phonetic category acquisition [PDF]

, 2013
Infants segment words from fluent speech during the same period when they are learning phonetic categories, yet accounts of phonetic category acquisition typically ignore information about the words in which sounds appear.
Feldman, Naomi H., Goldwater, Sharon, Griffiths, Thomas L., Morgan, James L.   +3 more
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ERP characterization of sustained attention effects in visual lexical categorization.

PLoS ONE, 2010
As our understanding of the basic processes underlying reading is growing, the key role played by attention in this process becomes evident. Two research topics are of particular interest in this domain: (1) it is still undetermined whether sustained ...
Clara D Martin, Guillaume Thierry, Jean-François Démonet   +2 more
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Mixing the stimulus list in bilingual lexical decision turns cognate facilitation effects into mirrored inhibition effects

, 2020
To test the BIA+ and Multilink models’ accounts of how bilinguals process words with different degrees of cross-linguistic orthographic and semantic overlap, we conducted two experiments manipulating stimulus list composition.
Dijkstra, T., Peeters, D., Rüschemeyer, S., Vanlangendonck, F.   +3 more
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Gender aspect of communicative dominance (of the English-language interview discourse) [PDF]

Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2018
The article is devoted to the analysis of the linguistic and cultural continuum of the word «avitaminosis» in the modern Russian language as part of the key idea of «Winter» in the Russian language picture of the world.
Bulina Evgenia V.
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Interrelation Between Conceptual and Linguistic Worldviews (Based on the Economic Lexical Item ‘CLIENT’)

Психолінгвістика, 2019
This article presents a theoretical approach to the concept interpretation “worldview” which expresses human knowledge about environment. The difference between conceptual and linguistic worldviews has been determined.
Lesia Kushmar
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