The effects of shared storybook reading on word learning: A meta-analysis.

ZM Flack, AP Field, JS Horst - Developmental psychology, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Although an abundant literature documents preliterate children's word learning success from
shared storybook reading, a full synthesis of the factors which moderate these word learning …

Differentiating phonotactic probability and neighborhood density in adult word learning

HL Storkel, J Armbrüster, TP Hogan - 2006 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this study was to differentiate effects of phonotactic probability, the
likelihood of occurrence of a sound sequence, and neighborhood density, the number of …

An online calculator to compute phonotactic probability and neighborhood density on the basis of child corpora of spoken American English

HL Storkel, JR Hoover - Behavior research methods, 2010 - Springer
An online calculator was developed (www. bncdnet. ku. edu/cml/info_ccc. vi) to compute
phonotactic probability—the likelihood of occurrence of a sound sequence—and …

The implications of polysemy for theories of word learning

M Srinivasan, H Rabagliati - Child Development Perspectives, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Word learning is typically studied as a problem in which children need to learn a single
meaning for a new word. And by most theories, children's learning is itself guided by the …

The independent effects of phonotactic probability and neighbourhood density on lexical acquisition by preschool children

HL Storkel, SY Lee - Language and cognitive processes, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The goal of this research was to disentangle effects of phonotactic probability, the likelihood
of occurrence of a sound sequence, and neighbourhood density, the number of …

Words cluster phonetically beyond phonotactic regularities

I Dautriche, K Mahowald, E Gibson, A Christophe… - Cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent evidence suggests that cognitive pressures associated with language acquisition
and use could affect the organization of the lexicon. On one hand, consistent with noisy …

A cross-sectional comparison of the effects of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density on word learning by preschool children

JR Hoover, HL Storkel, TP Hogan - Journal of Memory and Language, 2010 - Elsevier
Two experiments examined the effects of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density
on word learning by 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children. Nonwords orthogonally varying in …

Learning diphone‐based segmentation

R Daland, JB Pierrehumbert - Cognitive science, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reconsiders the diphone‐based word segmentation model of Cairns, Shillcock,
Chater, and Levy (1997) and Hockema (2006), previously thought to be unlearnable. A …

Ambiguous words are harder to learn

T Degani, N Tokowicz - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2010 - cambridge.org
Relatively little is known about the role of ambiguity in adult second-language learning. In
this study, native English speakers learned Dutch–English translation pairs that either …

Learning homophones in context: Easy cases are favored in the lexicon of natural languages

I Dautriche, L Fibla, AC Fievet, A Christophe - Cognitive psychology, 2018 - Elsevier
Even though ambiguous words are common in languages, children find it hard to learn
homophones, where a single label applies to several distinct meanings (eg, Mazzocco …