Children like dense neighborhoods: Orthographic neighborhood density effects in novel readers.

Andoni Duñabeitia , Eduardo Vidal - Abarca Children Like Dense Neighborhoods : Orthographic Neighborhood Density Effects in

The Impact of Semantic Neighborhood Density on Semantic Access

Theories of word recognition agree that multiple word candidates are activated and compete for recognition when a word is read or heard. Orthographic and phonological density metrics have provided significant, but partial, accounts of this activation and competition process. We extend this approach to examine the impact of semantic neighborhood density on visual semantic access. We compare meas...

Differentiating the effects of phonotactic probability and neighborhood density on vocabulary comprehension and production: a comparison of preschool children with versus without phonological delays.

PURPOSE To differentiate the effect of phonotactic probability from that of neighborhood density on a vocabulary probe administered to preschool children with or without phonological delays. METHOD Twenty preschool children with functional phonological delays and 34 preschool children with typical language development completed a 121-item vocabulary probe in both an expressive and receptive r...

Effects of Onset Density in Preschool Children: Implications for Development of Phonological Awareness and Phonological Representation

Neighborhood density influences adult performance on several word processing tasks. Some studies show age-related effects of density on children’s performance, reflecting a developmental restructuring of the mental lexicon from holistic into segmental representations that may play a role in phonological awareness. To further investigate density effects and their implications for development of ...

The Characteristics of Chinese Orthographic Neighborhood Size Effect for Developing Readers

Orthographic neighborhood size (N size) effect in Chinese character naming has been studied in adults. In the present study, we aimed to explore the developmental characteristics of Chinese N size effect. One hundred and seventeen students (40 from the 3(rd) grade with mean age of 9 years; 40 from the 5(th) grade with mean age of 11 years; 37 from the 7(th) grade with mean age of 13 years) were...