Sleep plays a role in strengthening new words and integrating them with existing vocabulary
knowledge, consistent with neural models of learning in which sleep supports hippocampal …

This study investigated the developmental time course of spoken word recognition in older
children using eye tracking to assess how the real-time processing dynamics of word …

Lexical competition is a hallmark of proficient, automatic word recognition. Previous
research suggests that there is a delay before a new spoken word becomes engaged in this …

Eight to 11% of children have a clinical disorder in oral language (Developmental Language
Disorder, DLD). Language deficits in DLD can affect all levels of language and persist …

Novel word learning and consolidation was studied in inexperienced language learners, to
conceptually replicate and extend a similar study in experienced learners by Bakker …

New vocabulary is consolidated offline, particularly during sleep; however, the parameters
that influence consolidation remain unclear. Two experiments investigated effects of …

Evidence is growing for the involvement of consolidation processes in the learning and
retention of language, largely based on instances of new linguistic components (eg, new …

Second language (L2) learners must not only acquire L2 knowledge (ie vocabulary and
grammar), but they must also rapidly access this knowledge. In monolinguals, efficient …

Lexical competition processes are widely viewed as the hallmark of visual word recognition,
but little is known about the factors that promote their emergence. This study examined for …

A hotly debated question in word learning concerns the conditions under which newly
learned words compete or interfere with familiar words during spoken word recognition. This …