Associations to unfamiliar words: Learning the meanings of new words

Learning new meanings for old words: effects of semantic relatedness.

Changes to our everyday activities mean that adult language users need to learn new meanings for previously unambiguous words. For example, we need to learn that a "tweet" is not only the sound a bird makes, but also a short message on a social networking site. In these experiments, adult participants learned new fictional meanings for words with a single dominant meaning (e.g., "ant") by readi...

The Use of Prosodic Cues in Learning New Words in an Unfamiliar Language

levels of exterior meanings of quranic words

any language foremost is composed of words and words are one of the most important elements in conveying meaning and they have different diversities and levels in conveying this meaning. quranic words are not the exception; therefore, to discover and to understand the different levels of conveying meaning (exterior and inner) by words, the quran reader can be more aware of the meaning and the p...

Learning Words and Their Meanings from Unsegmented Child-directed Speech

Most work on language acquisition treats word segmentation—the identification of linguistic segments from continuous speech— and word learning—the mapping of those segments to meanings—as separate problems. These two abilities develop in parallel, however, raising the question of whether they might interact. To explore the question, we present a new Bayesian segmentation model that incorporates...

Real Words, Possible Words, and New Words

Phonologists and psycholinguists draw a three-way distinction amongst real words, possible words, and impossible words.The distinction between real words and possible words provides the foundation for lexical decision experiments. The distinction between possible words and impossible words reveals implicit cognitive generalizations about words in a language, and thereby contributes to the under...