Exploring the relations between child and word characteristics and preschoolers' word-learning
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DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2021.101332
Abstract: Abstract Preschool vocabulary interventions have reported modest increases in learning of target words, with wide variability among participants. To design interventions that are effective for all learners, more fine-grained information is needed. In the present… read more here.
Keywords: word; word characteristics; exploring relations; child word ... See more keywords
Co‐Registered Eye‐Movements and Brain Potentials Reveal Multiple Effects of Context Across the Visual Field in Natural Reading
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DOI: 10.1111/psyp.70173
Abstract: This study investigates how expectancy and plausibility influence behavioral and neural measures of language processing during naturalistic reading comprehension. Prior event‐related potential (ERP) studies show evidence of distinct post‐N400 positivities to violations of semantic expectancy… read more here.
Keywords: reading; target words; expectancy plausibility; target ... See more keywords
How do first-language in-text repeated glosses in second-language reading influence novel words processing and learning outcomes beyond effects of occurrence frequency?
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DOI: 10.1177/13621688251367859
Abstract: This study investigated how repeated occurrences of novel words and the corresponding number of first-language in-text glosses influenced novel words processing and learning outcomes during second-language reading. Using eye-tracking, 48 college students in China read… read more here.
Keywords: language text; words processing; target words; language ... See more keywords
Metonymy Processing in Chinese: A Linguistic Context-Sensitive Eye-Tracking Preliminary Study
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.916854
Abstract: Current cognitively oriented research on metaphor proposes that understanding metaphorical expressions is a process of building embodied simulations, which are constrained by past and present bodily experiences. However, it has also been shown that metaphor… read more here.
Keywords: target words; linguistic context; metonymy processing; target ... See more keywords