Henderson, Lisa-Marie orcid.org/0000-0003-3635-2481 and James, Emma Louise orcid.org/0000-0002-5214-0035 (2018) Consolidating new words from repetitive versus multiple stories:Prior knowledge matters. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. pp. 465-484. ISSN 0022-0965
Abstract
Prior knowledge is proposed to support the consolidation of newly acquired material. The current study examined whether children with superior vocabulary knowledge show enhanced overnight consolidation, particularly when new words are encountered in varying stories. Children aged 10 and 11 years (N = 42) were exposed to two sets of eight spoken novel words (e.g., “crocodol”), with one set embedded in the same story presented twice and the other presented in two different stories. Children with superior vocabulary knowledge showed larger overnight gains in explicit phonological and semantic knowledge when novel words had been encountered in multiple stories. However, when novel words had been encountered in repetitive stories, existing knowledge exerted no influence on the consolidation of explicit phonological knowledge and had a negative impact on the consolidation of semantic knowledge. One full day (24 h) after story exposure, only very weak evidence of lexical integration (i.e., slower animacy decisions toward the basewords [e.g., “crocodile”] than toward the control words) was observed for novel words learned via repetitive (but not multiple) stories. These data suggest that although the consolidation of explicit new word knowledge learned through multiple contexts is supported by prior knowledge, lexical integration might benefit more from repetition.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Elsevier Inc. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (ESRC) ES/N009924/1 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2017 09:40 |
Last Modified: | 04 Mar 2025 00:04 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.09.017 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.09.017 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:124352 |