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Cross-situational Learning of Low Frequency Words: The Role of Context Familiarity and Age of Exposure [PDF]

open access: green, 2010
Higher frequency has been shown to have a positive effect on the acquisition of words and other linguistic items in children. An important question that needs to be answered then is how children learn low frequency items.
Afsaneh Fazly   +3 more
openalex   +3 more sources

Dissociation of sensitivity to spatial frequency in word and face preferential areas of the fusiform gyrus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Different cortical regions within the ventral occipitotemporal junction have been reported to show preferential responses to particular objects.
Woodhead, Z   +14 more
core   +2 more sources

A Preliminary Research to Develop A Customized Set of Vocabulary Size Test

open access: yesLLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, 2016
This is a preliminary research to investigate useful words to function effectively in academic contexts, vocabulary size, the first-year students word list, and the steps to design the customized set of entry-level vocabulary size test. This research was
Laurentia Sumarni
doaj   +1 more source

Mirror, mirror in the words: A week of word frequency mirror effects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The current study assessed whether the word frequency mirror effect in recognition memory changes across time. In an online study, we presented 192 M-Turk participants with a study list consisting of high- and low-frequency words and we tested ...
Meier, Beat   +3 more
core  

What is the optimal position of low-frequency words across line boundaries when reading aloud? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
During typesetting, text is formatted based on a number of characteristics. When displaying text, only a finite number of characters can be presented on a line.
Michael Teare   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Differential effects of age of acquisition and frequency on memory: evidence from free recall of pictures and words in Turkish [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The advantage of processing early over late acquired items in lexical and semantic tasks across a number of languages is well documented. Interestingly contradictory evidence has been reported in recall tasks where participants perform better overall on ...
Dilek Uzun Eroğlu   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Mean percent of words containing low-frequency sounds and mean overall percent occurrence of low-frequency sounds. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Mean percent of words containing low-frequency sounds and mean overall percent occurrence of low-frequency sounds.
Hannah LaPalombara (585779)   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Word Frequency Is Associated With Cognitive Effort During Verbal Working Memory: A Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019
PurposePsycholinguistic models traditionally view verbal working memory capacity as independent from linguistic features; connectionist models suggest otherwise.
Amy Berglund-Barraza   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Language-Related Skills in Bilingual Children With Specific Learning Disorders

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to better understand the characteristics of the language-related skills of bilingual children with specific learning disorders (SLD). The aim is achieved by analyzing language-related skills in a sample of bilingual (
Anna Riva   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Orthographic consistency and word-frequency effects in auditory word recognition: New evidence from lexical decision and rime detection

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2011
Many studies have repeatedly shown an orthographic consistency effect in the auditory lexical decision task. Words with phonological rimes that could be spelled in multiple ways (i.e., inconsistent words) typically produce longer auditory lexical ...
Ana ePetrova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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