Savic, Olivera, Unger, Layla and Sloutsky, Vladimir M (2023) Experience and maturation:The contribution of co-occurrence regularities in language to the development of semantic organization. Child Development. pp. 142-158. ISSN 0009-3920
Abstract
With development knowledge becomes organized according to semantic links, including early-developing associative (e.g., juicy-apple) and gradually developing taxonomic links (e.g., apple-pear). Word co-occurrence regularities may foster these links: Associative links may form from direct co-occurrence (e.g., juicy-apple), and taxonomic links from shared co-occurrence (e.g., apple and pear co-occur with juicy). Four experiments (2017-2020) investigated this possibility with 4- to 8-year-olds (N = 148, 82 female) and adults (N = 116, 35 female) in a U.S. city with 58.6% White; 29.0% Black, and 5.8% Asian demographics. Results revealed earlier development of the abilities to form direct (ds > 0.536) than the abilities to form shared co-occurrence-based links (ds > 1.291). We argue that the asynchronous development of abilities to form co-occurrence-based links may explain developmental changes in semantic organization.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development. |
Keywords: | Adult,Humans,Female,Semantics,Language,Language Development |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 24 Jan 2024 09:20 |
Last Modified: | 25 Dec 2024 00:29 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13844 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/cdev.13844 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:208202 |
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