Literature is replete with the studies focusing on the role of vocabulary knowledge in second language receptive skills. However, the relationship between the aspects of vocabulary knowledge and productive skills in general, and the speaking performance in particular has remained scanty in the related literature. This paper examined the relationship between knowledge of L2 vocabulary size at di...

Introduction. The development of society, new historical conditions existence and social relations lead to the emergence words, words meanings that record phenomena life. conditioning changes is mainly related communicative function language, designed meet needs people in communication, which determines search for most rational means nomination. Methods. To achieve goal, method analysis linguis...

Previous research found that iconicity—the motivated correspondence between word form and meaning—contributes to expressive vocabulary acquisition. We present two new experiments with two different databases and with novel analyses to give a detailed quantification of how iconicity contributes to vocabulary acquisition across development, including both receptive understanding and production. T...

RESEARCH FINDINGS The roles of child lexical diversity and maternal sensitivity in the development of young children's inhibitory control were examined in 100 low-income Hispanic Spanish-speaking children. Child communication utterances at age 2½ years were transcribed from 10-min mother-child interactions to quantify lexical diversity. Maternal behavior was rated independently from the interac...

Automatic event extraction form text is an important step in knowledge acquisition and knowledge base population. Manual work in development of extraction system is indispensable either in corpus annotation or in vocabularies and pattern creation for a knowledge-based system. Recent works have been focused on adaptation of existing system (for extraction from English texts) to new domains. Even...

In this paper we report on our recent development work in large vocabulary,American English continuous speech dictation. We have experimented with (1) alternative analyses for the acoustic front end, (2) the use of an enlarged vocabulary so as to reduce the number of errors due to out-of-vocabulary words, (3) extensions to the lexical representation, (4) the use of additional acoustic training ...

PURPOSE The goals of this study were to evaluate the impact of short-term phonological awareness (PA) instruction presented in children's first language (L1; Spanish) on gains in their L1 and second language (L2; English) and to determine whether relationships exist between vocabulary size, verbal working memory, and PA in Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs). METHOD Participants...