Support for hybrid models of the age of acquisition of English nouns

@article{citeulike:2305847, abstract = {Age of acquisition (AoA) is a psycholinguistic construct that refers to the chronological age at which a given word is acquired. Contemporary theories of AoA have focused on lexical acquisition with respect to either the developing phonological or semantic systems. One way of testing the relative dominance of phonological or semantic contributions is through open-source psycholinguistic databases, whereby AoA may be correlated with other variables (e.g., morphology, semantics, phonology). We report two multiple regression analyses conducted on a corpus of English nouns with, respectively, subjective and objective AoA measures as the dependent variables and a combination of 10 predictors, including 2 semantic, 4 phonological, 2 morphological, and 2 lexical. This multivariate combination of predictors accounted for significant proportions of the variance of AoA in both analyses. We argue that this evidence supports hybrid models of language development that integrate multiple levels of processing\&\#8212;from sound to meaning.}, author = {Reilly, Jamie }, citeulike-article-id = {2305847}, keywords = {aoa, semantic-development, semantic-measures}, month = {December}, pages = {1164--1170}, posted-at = {2008-01-30 03:54:18}, priority = {0}, title = {Support for hybrid models of the age of acquisition of English nouns}, url = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/psocpubs/pbr/2007/00000014/00000006/art00021} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2305847 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2305847 TI - Support for hybrid models of the age of acquisition of English nouns SP - 1164 EP - 1170 N2 - Age of acquisition (AoA) is a psycholinguistic construct that refers to the chronological age at which a given word is acquired. Contemporary theories of AoA have focused on lexical acquisition with respect to either the developing phonological or semantic systems. One way of testing the relative dominance of phonological or semantic contributions is through open-source psycholinguistic databases, whereby AoA may be correlated with other variables (e.g., morphology, semantics, phonology). We report two multiple regression analyses conducted on a corpus of English nouns with, respectively, subjective and objective AoA measures as the dependent variables and a combination of 10 predictors, including 2 semantic, 4 phonological, 2 morphological, and 2 lexical. This multivariate combination of predictors accounted for significant proportions of the variance of AoA in both analyses. We argue that this evidence supports hybrid models of language development that integrate multiple levels of processing—from sound to meaning. KW - aoa KW - semantic-development KW - semantic-measures AU - Reilly, Jamie UR - http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/psocpubs/pbr/2007/00000014/00000006/art00021 ER -