Journal article
Support for hybrid models of the age of acquisition of English nouns
Psychonomic bulletin & review, v 14(6), pp 1164-1170
01 Dec 2007
PMID: 18229491
Abstract
Age of acquisition (AoA) is a psycholinguistic construct that refers to the chronological age at which a given word is acquired. Contemporary theories of AoA have focused on lexical acquisition with respect to either the developing phonological or semantic systems. One way of testing the relative dominance of phonological or semantic contributions is through open-source psycholinguistic databases, whereby AoA may be correlated with other variables (e.g., morphology, semantics, phonology). We report two multiple regression analyses conducted on a corpus of English nouns with, respectively, subjective and objective AoA measures as the dependent variables and a combination of 10 predictors, including 2 semantic, 4 phonological, 2 morphological, and 2 lexical. This multivariate combination of predictors accounted for significant proportions of the variance of AoA in both analyses. We argue that this evidence supports hybrid models of language development that integrate multiple levels of processing-from sound to meaning.
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- Title
- Support for hybrid models of the age of acquisition of English nouns
- Creators
- Jamie Reilly - University of FloridaEvangelia G. Chrysikou - University of PennsylvaniaChristopher H. Ramey - Florida Southern College
- Publication Details
- Psychonomic bulletin & review, v 14(6), pp 1164-1170
- Publisher
- Psychonomic Soc Inc
- Number of pages
- 7
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts and Sciences
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000251924800021
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-38149140166
- Other Identifier
- 991020531857304721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Experimental
- Psychology, Mathematical