Henderson, L, Weighall, A, Brown, H et al. (1 more author) (2013) Online Lexical Competition During Spoken Word Recognition and Word Learning in Children and Adults. Child Development, 84 (5). pp. 1668-1685. ISSN 0009-3920
Abstract
Lexical competition that occurs as speech unfolds is a hallmark of adult oral language comprehension crucial to rapid incremental speech processing. This study used pause detection to examine whether lexical competition operates similarly at 7–8 years and tested variables that influence “online” lexical activity in adults. Children (n = 20) and adults (n = 17) were slower to detect pauses in familiar words with later uniqueness points. Faster latencies were obtained for words with late uniqueness points in constraining compared with neutral sentences; no such effect was observed for early unique words. Following exposure to novel competitors (“biscal”), children (n = 18) and adults (n = 18) showed competition for existing words with early uniqueness points (“biscuit”) after 24 hr. Thus, online lexical competition effects are remarkably similar across development.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013 The Authors. Child Development © 2013 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Henderson, L., Weighall, A., Brown, H. and Gaskell, G. (2013), Online Lexical Competition During Spoken Word Recognition and Word Learning in Children and Adults. Child Development, 84: 1668–1685, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12067. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2016 10:20 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2018 16:33 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12067 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/cdev.12067 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:94676 |