The authors conducted 3 experiments addressing the issue of how observations and multiple sources of prior knowledge are put together in category learning. In Experiments 1 and 2, learning was faster for critical features, which were predictable on the basis of prior knowledge, than for filler features, and this advantage increased as more observations were made. In addition, learning was faste...

We tested the predictions of 2 explanations for retrieval-based learning; while the elaborative retrieval hypothesis assumes that the retrieval of studied information promotes the generation of semantically related information, which aids in later retrieval (Carpenter, 2009), the episodic context account proposed by Karpicke, Lehman, and Aue (in press) assumes that retrieval alters the represen...

learning vocabulary constitutes a crucial step in language learning. amongst different word categories, compound words have failed to attract the attention they deserve. this led us to conduct a study trying to pinpoint the difficulties learning these words and to suggest some techniques facilitating their acquisition. to that effect, a questionnaire as well as a vocabu-lary test were given to ...

The role of prosody in adults’ acquisition of a miniature artificial language was examined in three experiments. In Experiment 1, learners heard and repeated prerecorded sentences of the language, and simultaneously saw corresponding referents, but did not see any printed words. Learners received four study-test trials. Half the learners heard a ‘‘single word’’ presentation, in which each of th...

Reading proficiency in the English alphabetic system requires mastery of common letter-to-sound mappings as well as rapid recognition of familiar words. Previous research has suggested that readers differ in their preferences for the two strategies of word reading, with some preferring to focus on the letter-tosound correspondences within a word, a grapheme-phoneme (GP) strategy, while others p...

Learning a language with complex morphology poses challenge to learners, especially adults, who may need acquire unfamiliar grammatical categories. One possible advantage languages is that the could provide cues word meaning. The hypothesis can bootstrap adult learning tested across four cross-situational experiments. Adult learners were exposed words from novel CVCV stems and -CV suffixes. In ...

abstract introduction: nowadays, a variety of different methods are employed to improve learning particularly in teaching to medical students. one of the factors affecting in learning is making the students active in teaching activities. preparation of question through students is one of these ways to make the students active in learning, which was the main aim of this study. methods and materi...

This work combines a set of available techniques – which could be further extended – to perform noun sense disambiguation. We use several unsupervised techniques (Rigau et al., 1997) that draw knowledge from a variety of sources. In addition, we also apply a supervised technique in order to show that supervised and unsupervised methods can be combined to obtain better results. This paper tries ...