Contrasting Effects of Age of Acquisition in Lexical Decision and Letter Detection

2003 ◽  
Vol 116 (3) ◽  
pp. 367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egbert M. H. Assink ◽  
Sonja Van Well ◽  
Paul P. N. A. Knuijt
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Age Of Acquisition ◽  
Letter Detection

scholarly journals Contrasting effects of age of acquisition and word frequency on auditory and visual lexical decision

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1282-1291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith E. Turner ◽  
Tim Valentine ◽  
Andrew W. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Word Frequency ◽  
Age Of Acquisition ◽  
Visual Lexical Decision

scholarly journals Quantifying children's sensorimotor experience: Child body-object interaction ratings for 3,359 English words

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emiko Joanne Muraki ◽  
Israa A. Siddiqui ◽  
Penny M. Pexman
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Age Of Acquisition ◽  
Developmental Perspective ◽  
Lexical Knowledge ◽  
Object Interaction ◽  
Semantic Decision ◽  
Sensorimotor Information ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Sensory Experience Ratings

Body-object interaction (BOI) ratings measure how easily the human body can physically interact with a word's referent. Previous research has found that words higher in BOI tend to be processed more quickly and accurately in tasks such as lexical decision, semantic decision, and syntactic classification, suggesting that sensorimotor information is an important aspect of lexical knowledge. However, limited research has examined the importance of sensorimotor information from a developmental perspective. One barrier to addressing such theoretical questions has been a lack of semantic dimension ratings that take into account child sensorimotor experience. The goal of the current study was to collect Child BOI rating norms. Parents of children aged 5 – 9-years-old were asked to rate words according to how easily an average 6-year-old child can interact with each word’s referent. The relationships of Child and Adult BOI ratings with other lexical semantic dimensions were assessed, as well as the relationships of Child and Adult BOI ratings with age of acquisition. Child BOI ratings were more strongly related to valence and sensory experience ratings than Adult BOI ratings and were a better predictor of three different measures of age of acquisition. The results suggest that child-centric ratings such as those reported here provide a more sensitive measure of children’s experience that can be used to address theoretical questions in embodied cognition from a developmental perspective.

Word age-of-acquisition and lexical decision making

1982 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.J. Gilhooly ◽  
R.H. Logie
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Age Of Acquisition

Interactive Effects of Age-of-Acquisition and Repetition Priming in the Lexical Decision Task

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pietro Spataro ◽  
Emiddia Longobardi ◽  
Daniele Saraulli ◽  
Clelia Rossi-Arnaud
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Repetition Priming ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Age Of Acquisition ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Phonological Representations ◽  
Phonological Processes ◽  
Multiple Loci

The analysis of the interaction between repetition priming and age of acquisition may be used to shed further light on the question of which stages of elaboration are affected by this psycholinguistic variable. In the present study we applied this method in the context of two versions of a lexical decision task that differed in the type of non-words employed at test. When the non-words were illegal and unpronounceable, repetition priming was primarily based on the analysis of orthographic information, while phonological processes were additionally recruited only when using legal pronounceable non-words. The results showed a significant interaction between repetition priming and age of acquisition in both conditions, with priming being greater for late- than for early-acquired words. These findings support a multiple-loci account, indicating that age of acquisition influences implicit memory by facilitating the retrieval of both the orthographic and the phonological representations of studied words.

USING LEXICAL FEATURES TO INVESTIGATE SECOND LANGUAGE LEXICAL DECISION PERFORMANCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 911-935 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Berger ◽  
Scott Crossley ◽  
Stephen Skalicky
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Word Recognition ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Nonnative Speakers ◽  
Age Of Acquisition ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Large Dataset ◽  
Contextual Diversity ◽  
Decision Performance ◽  
The Impact

AbstractA large dataset of word recognition behavior from nonnative speakers (NNS) of English was collected using an online crowdsourced lexical decision task. Lexical features were used to predict NNS lexical decision latencies and accuracies. Predictors of NNS latencies and accuracy included contextual diversity, age of acquisition, and contextual distinctiveness, while length moderated the impact of contextual diversity and neighborhood size on accuracy. Results have implications for second language word recognition and demonstrate that NNS behavioral data collected through large crowdsourcing projects can afford a rich source for SLA research.

scholarly journals Age of acquisition effects on traditional Chinese character naming and lexical decision

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 1317-1324
Author(s):  
Ya-Ning Chang ◽  
Chia-Ying Lee
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Semantic Processing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Chinese Character ◽  
Lexical Processing ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Processing System ◽  
Age Of Acquisition ◽  
Chinese Character Naming

AbstractAcross languages, age of acquisition (AoA) is a critical psycholinguistic factor in lexical processing, reflecting the influence of learning experience. Early-acquired words tend to be processed more quickly and accurately than late-acquired words. Recently, an integrated view proposed that both the mappings between representations and the construction of semantic representations contribute to AoA effects, thus, predicting larger AoA effects for words with arbitrary mappings between representations as well as for tasks requiring greater semantic processing. We investigated how these predictions generalize to the Chinese language system that differs from alphabetic languages regarding the ease of mappings and semantic involvement in lexical processing. A cross-task investigation of differential psycholinguistic effects was conducted with large character naming and lexical decision datasets to establish the extent to which semantics is involved in the two tasks. We focused on examining the effect sizes of lexical-semantic variables and AoA, and the interaction between AoA and consistency. The results demonstrated that semantics influenced Chinese character naming more than lexical decision, which is in contrast with the findings related to English language, though, critically, AoA effects were more pronounced for character naming than for lexical decision. Additionally, an interaction between AoA and consistency was found in character naming. Our findings provide cross-linguistic evidence supporting the view of multiple origins of AoA effects in the language-processing system.

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