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2011
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Looking in the Wrong Direction Correlates With More Accurate Word Learning
Previous research on lexical development has aimed to identify the factors that enable accurate initial word-referent mappings based on the assumption that the accuracy of initial...
Stanka A. Fitneva, Morten H. Christiansen
COGSCI
2011
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Japanese Sound-Symbolism Facilitates Word Learning in English-Speaking Children
Sound symbolism is the non-arbitrary link between the sound of a word and its meaning. Imai et al. (2008) showed that Japanese speaking children benefited from the presence of sou...
Katerina Kantartzis, Mutsumi Imai, Sotaro Kita
COGSCI
2011
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Adaptation to Novel Accents: Feature-Based Learning of Context-Sensitive Phonological Regularities
This paper examines whether adults can adapt to novel accents of their native language that contain unfamiliar context-dependent phonological alternations. In two experiments, Fre...
Katrin Skoruppa, Sharon Peperkamp
COGSCI
2011
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A Phase Transition Model for the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off in Response Time Experiments
Most models of response time (RT) in elementary cognitive tasks implicitly assume that the speed-accuracy trade-off is continuous: When payoffs or instructions gradually increase ...
Gilles Dutilh, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Ingmar Visser...
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2011
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Structural Priming as Structure-Mapping: Children Use Analogies From Previous Utterances to Guide Sentence Production
What mechanisms underlie children’s language production? Structural priming—the repetition of sentence structure across utterances—is an important measure of the developing ...
Micah B. Goldwater, Marc T. Tomlinson, Catharine H...