Organizational and formational structures of networks in the mental lexicon: A state-of-the-art through systematic review

L McCarthy, I Miralpeix - Languages, 2019 - mdpi.com
This state-of-the-art presents a systematic exploration on the use of network patterns in
global research efforts to understand, organize and represent the mental lexicon. Results …

Learning individual verbs and the verb system: When are multiple examples helpful?

M Imai, JB Childers - Language and Concept Acquisition from Infancy …, 2020 - Springer
This chapter focuses on the problem of verb learning, including learning the meaning of a
single new verb and learning the verb system in a language. Verb learning occurs in three …

The role of age of acquisition in bilingual word translation: Evidence from Spanish-English bilinguals

JM Bowers, SM Kennison - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2011 - Springer
The present research tested the hypothesis that the age at which one's first language (L1)
words are learned influences language processing in bilinguals. Prior research on bilingual …

Visualizing first and second language interactions in science reading: A knowledge structure network approach

K Kim - Language Assessment Quarterly, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The present study considers the potential influence of first language (L1) in reading second
language (L2) science text. University mixed proficiency Korean English language learners …

'Speaking volumes': A longitudinal study of lexical and grammatical growth between 17 and 42 months

F Labrell, P Van Geert, C Declercq… - First …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Dynamic analyses of language growth tell us how vocabulary and grammar develop and
how the two might be intertwined. Analyses of growth curves between 17 and 42 months …

The competition model and language disorders

N Presson, B MacWhinney - The handbook of psycholinguistic …, 2011 - taylorfrancis.com
To understand language disorders, we need to contrast disordered language processing
with normal language processing. In one sense, this is easy to do. We see that people with …

Understanding children's difficulties with mathematical equivalence

NM McNeil, CB Hornburg, MW Fuhs… - Acquisition of complex …, 2017 - Elsevier
Most elementary school children (ages 7–11) solve mathematical equivalence problems
incorrectly by adding all the numbers in the problem (eg, 3+ 4+ 5= 3+ 15). Moreover …

Modeling the bilingual lexicon of an individual subject

R Miikkulainen, S Kiran - Advances in Self-Organizing Maps: 7th …, 2009 - Springer
Lexicon is a central component in any language processing system, whether human or
artificial. Recent empirical evidence suggests that a multilingual lexicon consists of a single …

What constrains simultaneous mastery of first and second language word use?

BC Malt, RL Jobe, P Li, A Pavlenko… - International Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and objectives: We examined the bi-directional interaction of first language (L1) and
second language (L2) word use patterns by asking whether L2 patterns of word use can be …

Correlation versus prediction in children's word learning: Cross-linguistic evidence and simulations

E Colunga, LB Smith, M Gasser - Language and Cognition, 2009 - cambridge.org
The ontological distinction between discrete individuated objects and continuous
substances, and the way this distinction is expressed in different languages has been a …