The acquisition of new skills over a life span is a remarkable human ability. This ability,
however, is constrained by age of acquisition (AoA); that is, the age at which learning occurs …

Following a brief history of age of acquisition (AoA) research and consideration of measures
of AoA, this review examines AoA effects in lexical processing tasks (such as object naming …

Age of acquisition (AoA) refers to the age at which people learn a particular item and the
AoA effect refers to the phenomenon that early-acquired items are processed more quickly …

Early acquired words are processed faster than later acquired words in lexical and semantic
tasks. Demonstrating such age of acquisition (AoA) effects beyond reasonable doubt, and …

In the last few years, a number of connectionist models have been described that provide an
explanation for age-of-acquisition (AoA) effects in verbal and nonverbal tasks. Further …

In two experiments, we examined whether word age-of-acquisition (AoA) is a reliable
predictor of processing times in semantic tasks. In the first task, participants were asked to …

A review of multitask investigations on the locus of the age-of-acquisition (AoA) effect in the
English, Dutch, and French languages reveals two main findings. First, for most tasks there …

Recent studies have suggested that age of acquisition (AoA) has an impact on skilled
reading independent of factors such as frequency. This result raises questions about …

Age of acquisition (AoA) ratings were obtained and were used in hierarchical regression
analyses to predict naming and lexical-decision performance for 2,342 words (from Balota …

This paper concerns the influence of age of acquisition (AoA) in word reading and other
tasks, and attempts to develop a number of issues raised by Zevin and Seidenberg (2002) …