This paper presents, in a unified way, two new trends in natural language processing, that is a new kind of lexicons that are cornerstones of a lot of current natural language applications which tackle the problem of meaning, and different corpus-based lexical knowledge acquisition studies that have emerged with the big amounts of electronic texts available on the nets. More precisely, this pap...

Abstract Word-learning development is extremely varied among children with autism, some showing a peak of abilities in vocabulary and others little or no comprehension expression isolated words. Typical word learning mechanisms, such as the application mutual exclusivity, cross-situational mapping, whole-object principle, noun-naming bias also share this heterogeneity: mechanisms appear to deve...

The non-word repetition test has been regularly used to examine children’s vocabulary acquisition, and yet there is no clear explanation of all of the effects seen in non-word repetition. This paper presents a study of 25 5-6 year-old children’s repetition performance on three non-word repetition tests that vary in the degree of their lexicality. EPAM-VOC, a model of children’s vocabulary acqui...

PURPOSE To address the problem of low reading comprehension scores among children with hearing impairment, it is necessary to have a better understanding of their reading vocabulary. In this study, the authors investigated whether task and word type differentiate the reading vocabulary knowledge of children with and without severe hearing loss. METHOD Seventy-two children with hearing loss an...