VOCABULARY ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT

Vocabulary Acquisition through Frequency Exposure via Reading

RUNNING HEAD: ORTHOGRAPHY AND VOCABULARY ACQUISITION Orthographic facilitation in oral vocabulary acquisition

An experiment investigated whether exposure to orthography facilitates oral vocabulary learning. Fifty-eight typically developing children aged 8-9 years were taught 12 nonwords. Children were trained to associate novel phonological forms with pictures of novel objects. Pictures were used as referents to represent novel word meanings. For half of the nonwords children were additionally exposed ...

Language development and acquisition in children

Language acquisition is a natural developmental process and is unique to Homo sapiens in which a child acquiring his or her mother tongue as a first language.  The simplest theory of language development is that children learn language by imitating adult language. A second possibility is that children acquire language through conditioning. Noam Chomsky put forward innateness hypothesis. Piaget ...

Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition of Verbs

This paper describes a computational implementation of an algorithm to define an ”unknown” verb based on the information in the context it appears in and any applicable background knowledge that the reader brings to bear. First, it describes some related research that has taken place and how it may be applied to the Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition (CVA) project. Next, it describes the process...

Interactive Vocabulary Acquisition in XTRA

This paper describes a practical solution to online dictionary update in X T R A , a machine translat ion system developed by X iuming Huang at the Computing Research Laboratory of New Mexico State University. The focus of the discussion in on IVES — an Interactive Vocabulary Enrichment System bui l t by this writer for X T R A , It reflects an ongoing effort at the laboratory to build embedded...