Cascading activation across levels of representation in children's lexical processing

Cascading activation across levels of representation in children's lexical processing.

Recent work in adult psycholinguistics has demonstrated that activation of semantic representations begins long before phonological processing is complete. This incremental propagation of information across multiple levels of analysis is a hallmark of adult language processing but how does this ability develop? In two experiments, we elicit measures of incremental activation of semantic represe...

Development of cascading activation 0 0 Cascading activation across levels of representation in children’s lexical processing

Acknowledgments: We would like to thank Jessica Hoy and Charlotte Distefano for their assistance in data collection and coding. We are also grateful to the children and teachers at the McGlynn Elementary School in Medford, MA for their participation in this study. Abstract Recent work in adult psycholinguistics has demonstrated that activation of semantic representations begins long before phon...

an investigation of accuracy and complexity across different proficiency levels in written narrative task

abstract this quasi-experimental study was aimed at examining the impact of storyline complexity on the grammatical accuracy and complexity of advanced and intermediate efl learners. a total of 65 advanced and intermediate efl learners were selected from iran language institute (ili). an intact group including 35 intermediate participants and another intact group with 30 advanced participants ...

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